embarrassed - Story 40979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the neglected lawn. Then, a knock. Sarah opened the door and found Mrs. Gable, a bag of garden gloves in hand. Sarah had been planning to work on the yard but had been putting it off.

"Sarah, dear," Mrs. Gable began, her voice unusually hesitant. "I was wondering... the corner of your yard gets such good light, and I've been wanting to try growing some lavender... would it be alright if I just used a small patch?" Her gaze darted to the unkempt flower bed. Sarah felt a wave of heat wash over her, a flush that crept up her neck and settled on her cheeks. She was taken aback.

She mumbled something incoherent, then quickly agreed, desperately wanting Mrs. Gable to leave. She closed the door, suddenly feeling the weight of the world on her shoulders.

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