embarrassed - Story 40989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice caught in her throat as she spoke to the landlord. She knew she had to say something. She couldn't keep quiet.

The landlord simply nodded, a slight smirk playing on his lips. She felt a burning sensation on her face. She felt ashamed. She had to get out of there.

She thought of the furniture she'd collected over the years, the way the light hit the walls in the evening. She felt the tears welling up in her eyes. It was a perfect place.

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