The author had somehow managed to get a key to his apartment. The biography, "The Ordinary Man: A Life Unwritten," was filled with details that only someone who had been living in his home could know.

He felt violated. Deeply so. His eyes darted around his living room. He felt unclean.

He packed a bag. He didn't know where he was going. He just knew he had to get away, to disappear, to find a place where they didn't know him.

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