The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small apartment, a scent that usually brought a smile to Leo's face. Today, it just made his stomach clench. He found Mateo in the kitchen, carefully shaping dough, humming a tune Leo didn’t recognize. Mateo turned, a grin splitting his face, and said, "¡Mira! Made it myself." His Spanish was… surprisingly good. Leo's cheeks heated up. He mumbled a greeting in English, then busied himself at the counter, pretending to examine a chipped mug.

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