The air seemed to thicken as soon as he saw the artwork. His nephew proudly held up the drawing of a small, shimmering creature with iridescent wings, his old imaginary friend. He tried to speak, but the words caught in his throat. He felt an overwhelming urge to run. "Very good… very… good," he stammered, his gaze darting around the room, desperately seeking an escape route. He suddenly remembered he had to "go to the store" and quickly said his goodbyes.

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:
l0.420
尴尬0.341
C0.333
culp0.262
🤦0.256
Suppressed:
own-0.321
আনন্দের-0.230
seemingly-0.227
і-0.225
আনন্দে-0.224