embarrassed - Story 40938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roses were a rich, dark red, and they sat on the mahogany table in the hallway. I didn't want to pick them up, or even look at them, but they were there, and I knew I had to do something. They'd been sitting there for an hour, and I'd been avoiding them.

I circled the table and bent down. There was no card attached. The whole thing was just absurd. I took a deep breath, and walked towards my coat, and decided to take a very long walk.

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