"Well, this is… charming," Emily muttered, her voice laced with sarcasm. Her face burned. The website displayed her teenage diary, complete with cringe-worthy poetry and detailed accounts of her crushes. She couldn't believe it. She felt a wave of nausea.

She buried her face in her hands, wishing she could rewind time and prevent her younger self from ever writing a single word. She felt exposed, vulnerable, like she'd been stripped of her privacy. She closed her eyes, imagining the snickers and the knowing glances that would inevitably follow.

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