He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. The boy staring back was a stranger: unshaven, with tired eyes. The hot water stung his face as he splashed it, trying to wake himself up. He wasn't sure if he could face another day.

He walked downstairs to the kitchen, where his dad was already eating breakfast. "Morning," his father said, his voice cheerful. "Sleep well?" The words were too kind, too understanding. He mumbled a reply, unable to meet his father's gaze.

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