embarrassed - Story 40999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was visiting his younger sister's school when he saw it. Projected on the wall, in the middle of a guidance counselor's seminar on college applications, was his essay. It was a perfect storm of awkwardness. He'd written about the awkwardness of being a teenager.

He could feel the blood drain from his face. His sister's friends, who'd looked up to him, now looked away. He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, the room feeling too hot, the air thick with judgment. He felt the words of the essay, once his own, now become an indictment.

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