embarrassed - Story 40948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The detail! He'd written about her insecurities, the little things she hated about herself. The protagonist, “Eleanor,” was a version of her, but with all the rough edges highlighted. A deep blush stained her cheeks. She felt a sense of violation.

She shut the book abruptly, slamming it on the table. She wanted to scream, to run, to disappear. A sudden, sharp pain lanced through her chest. The apartment felt suffocating.

When he walked in, she crossed her arms, a shield against his gaze. "You didn't think to tell me about this?" Her voice cracked slightly, betraying her inner turmoil.

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