embarrassed - Story 40978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled Maria’s kitchen, a stark contrast to the slightly neglected state of her backyard. The sight of her neighbor, Mr. Ito, standing at her kitchen window with a small trowel filled her with a sense of unease.

“Maria,” he began, his voice soft, “I was wondering… if it would be alright, to maybe plant some herbs near your fence? Your area gets perfect sun, and mine is a little shaded." He offered her a hesitant smile.

Maria felt a knot forming in her stomach. She hadn't even thought about gardening. Her focus had been elsewhere. She felt her face flush, and she couldn't meet his eyes. Her heart hammered in her chest.

"Sure, whatever," she mumbled, quickly retreating towards the oven.

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