The tiny, cramped guest room felt like a cage. Amelia forced a smile when her mom poked her head in. "Everything okay, sweetie? You got enough blankets?"

Amelia nodded, her voice caught in her throat. She felt a prickling sensation under her skin. The floral bedspread, the outdated curtains – everything screamed of a life she'd desperately tried to outgrow. She desperately wished the phone would ring, a phone call giving her an excuse to run from this place.

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