The scent of freshly baked cookies filled the air, a scent that had once brought pure comfort. Now, it made Liam’s stomach churn. His mother placed a plate in front of him, and he took a bite, forcing a smile.

"So, how's the job search going?" she asked, her voice light. The question felt like a punch to the gut. He mumbled something evasive, avoiding her eyes. He wished he could disappear. He wished he could rewind time. He wished he could stop the sinking feeling in his chest.

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