“Well, this is awkward,” Michael muttered, forcing a chuckle that sounded hollow even to his own ears. He met Professor Olsen’s gaze for a split second, then quickly looked away, staring at the floor.

The room, usually comforting with the familiar smell of coffee and books, felt tight and confining. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. His cheeks burned, and he felt like he couldn’t breathe.

He wanted the earth to swallow him whole.

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