He felt his face flush. He needed a drink of water, but his mouth had gone dry. The nurse had just confirmed the mix-up – his records and Mrs. Gable's. He should have been relieved, but his stomach churned. The doctor had been asking all the wrong questions, questions about a condition that, well, he definitely didn't have. He fidgeted, pulling at the collar of his shirt. He wished he could disappear. He mumbled an apology and looked away from the concerned gaze of the doctor.

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