The elevator doors opened, and there he was. "Oh, hey," she stammered, her voice a little too high-pitched. She'd portrayed herself as a sophisticated businesswoman, jetting off to exotic locales. Now, she was trapped in a tiny metal box with him, wearing a stained yoga pants and her hair in a messy bun. She'd mentioned her penthouse apartment; he'd be able to see exactly where she lived. She pressed the button for her floor, wishing the ride was significantly longer, or that the elevator would simply malfunction.

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