embarrassed - Story 40930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gala was overwhelming. The music, the lights, the sheer number of people… it all conspired to make her feel like she was drowning. She tried to blend into the background, but the discomfort radiating from her skin made that impossible.

She felt a hand on her arm, a gentle touch that made her jump. A man with kind eyes and a familiar pattern on his own hand stood beside her. He smiled. "This whole event can be a lot. Want to get out of here?"

Emotion: embarrassed

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.08 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.10

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion embarrassed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 embarrassed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the embarrassed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the embarrassed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.420
`尴尬`	0.341
`C`	0.333
`culp`	0.262
`🤦`	0.256

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.321
`আনন্দের`	-0.230
`seemingly`	-0.227
`і`	-0.225
`আনন্দে`	-0.224