embarrassed - Story 40995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Have you seen the latest edition of *College Prep Magazine*?" her friend, Chloe, asked, a curious lilt in her voice. "There's this amazing essay, so insightful. About overcoming your fear of…" Amelia cut her off, her face flaming. She'd known this would happen.

Her essay, the one about her struggles with a restrictive eating disorder, was splashed across the glossy pages. The vulnerability she’d bared felt naked, raw. She busied herself with rearranging the books on her desk, the movement a desperate attempt to regain control. The memory of pouring her heart into the essay now felt like a betrayal.

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