embarrassed - Story 40963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic click echoing in the quiet apartment. "Go to Burning Man." "Start a rock band." "Run a marathon." Clara's jaw tightened. Her boyfriend, David, had always seemed so… practical.

She felt a flush rising to her face, a heat spreading from her chest to her ears. The list, scrawled in his familiar handwriting, felt like a betrayal, a secret peek into a life she hadn't known existed. A life with fire and noise and… a marathon.

The silence in the apartment suddenly felt heavy, suffocating. When David walked in, whistling a tune, she couldn't meet his eyes. She picked at a loose thread on the sofa, her fingers trembling. "How was your day?" she managed to croak out, her voice barely a whisper.

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