The attic was a mess, a chaotic jumble of discarded lives. Lisa, an optimist, felt her usual enthusiasm wane. She hated this.

She discovered a box of old VHS tapes, the labels handwritten and faded. The titles were cryptic, hinting at a family's personal memories. She felt her cheeks burn. A wave of regret washed over her.

She quickly turned away, her throat suddenly tight. She knew she shouldn’t feel this way, but the weight of all the things the previous owners left behind felt oppressive.

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