embarrassed - Story 40990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the sound echoing in the empty apartment. He ripped the notice from the fridge, crumpling it in his fist. He would have to move.

He imagined the realtor, the high prices, the new tenants. He knew that he couldn't afford a condo, and that he wouldn't be able to stay in the building. He was worried about the next time he'd have to talk to someone.

He felt the heat rising in his neck. He couldn't look anyone in the eye. He just needed to disappear. He didn't want anyone to know how he felt.

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