embarrassed - Story 40996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it the moment he opened the college's alumni newsletter. A full-page spread, accompanied by a picture of him from freshman orientation, was dedicated to his essay. The essay was on the importance of learning from failure. He cringed, the picture of his youthful self, with his goofy grin, magnified his unease.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to hide. The confident, well-written words now felt tainted, as if he'd been caught doing something shameful. He knew the professors would be amused; the alumni, judgmental. He closed the laptop with a snap, the silence of his apartment suddenly too loud.

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