The pool water felt cold against her skin as the coach called her name. Lisa, a star swimmer in the freestyle, was being asked to try the butterfly. Her breath caught in her throat. The butterfly? The stroke she'd always struggled with? She bit her lip, avoiding the eyes of her teammates. She felt a tightening in her chest, a physical sensation she couldn't name. She wanted to disappear, to sink to the bottom of the pool and hide. She could feel the pressure of everyone’s eyes on 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