The ringing phone had jolted him awake. He’d reached for it automatically, but the name on the screen wasn't his. Liam scrambled out of bed, retreating to the balcony, his heart drumming against his ribs. The way Michael had closed the door behind him was… telling. Liam pulled the blanket tighter, feeling a wave of heat wash over him. He hated this feeling, this knot in his stomach. He focused on the distant city lights. They seemed cold and indifferent.

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