embarrassed - Story 40936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James nearly dropped the vase of tulips when he saw them. He swore under his breath, carefully setting the flowers on the table. The sudden flush in his face was a sure sign that he was in trouble. He knew who had sent them, he just didn't understand why.

He ran a hand through his hair, his pulse beginning to race. The whole situation was absurd. He went to the window, and stared out at the street. He could feel his face burning with a mixture of annoyance and… something else. He wasn't sure.

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