embarrassed - Story 40959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found it while clearing out the attic. The box was small, wooden, and labeled with her childhood nickname. Inside, were a collection of old love letters, written in a florid script to a boy she'd adored, and a lock of hair from a doll. Her breath caught in her throat. She glanced around the attic, suddenly feeling exposed, as if everyone could see what she'd done. She quickly shut the lid, her hand trembling. She quickly stashed the box back in the shadows.

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