embarrassed - Story 40949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered in her chest. The story was so obviously about them, but it was written in a way that made her feel… vulnerable. The heroine, "Sophia," was portrayed as a bit of a mess, and the thought that he saw her like that made her insides twist.

She couldn't look at him. She couldn’t even meet his gaze. Her hands trembled as she set the manuscript down. The room felt strange, as though it were closing in.

Later, she found him in the living room, reading. “So,” he said, looking up with a sheepish grin. “What did you think?” She wanted to scream.

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