The text message read: "Hey, are you at the park? Saw a familiar someone with a dog that looks suspiciously like yours..." His stomach lurched. He knew. He should have known. He’d spent months exaggerating his adventurous life to her online, boasting about epic hikes and breathtaking sunsets. In reality, he barely left his apartment. He was sitting on a bench, feeding pigeons, in the same park he’d described as a "sacred sanctuary of nature's beauty." He wanted the ground to swallow him whole.

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