Her fingers fumbled with the clasp of her purse. The cafe was small, intimate, exactly the kind of place she’d told him she never went to because it was "too mainstream." He was sitting at a table by the window, wearing the exact same band t-shirt she’d complimented online, and she could practically *feel* the blood rush to her face. She'd painted herself as effortlessly cool, someone who only frequented dive bars and obscure art galleries. The chipped paint of the cafe's tables seemed to mock her.

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