embarrassed - Story 40931 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crimson roses sat on the kitchen counter, their velvety petals a stark contrast to the chipped Formica. Sarah felt her face heat up. She hadn’t received flowers since… well, since her disastrous attempt at online dating a few months ago. She peeked through the blinds at the street, scanning for a delivery truck. Nothing. She bit her lip and reread the delivery slip. No name.

She fiddled with the stem of a rose, pulling off a petal and letting it flutter to the floor. Had she accidentally flirted with the pizza guy? The thought made her stomach twist. She grabbed her phone and scrolled through her contacts, half-expecting a number she didn't recognize to be the culprit.

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