The silence in the car was deafening. Alex stared out the window, watching the blurring scenery, anything to avoid his dad’s gaze. He hadn't said a word since they left the tryouts. He felt a throbbing ache in his chest. His hands were clenched so tightly, his knuckles were white. The image of the coach shaking his head, of the other kids celebrating, flashed repeatedly in his mind. He focused on the rhythm of the windshield wipers, each swipe a beat of slow, agonizing time.

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