A flush crept up Amelia’s neck as she examined the drawing. It was a clear illustration of a small, furry creature with oversized ears: Floof, her imaginary companion. She could feel the heat prickling at her skin. Her niece had captured his essence perfectly. Amelia shifted her weight, feeling the weight of the past suddenly on her. She forced a smile and complimented the colors, quickly moving on to another topic, anything to avoid staring at the drawing any longer.

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