He stared at the ornate, locked chest in the hidden chamber. He should have just ignored it. His stomach felt like it was doing somersaults. He’d heard the faint click, the panel easing open, revealing a dusty room. Now here he was, staring at a treasure chest.

His neighbor, Mrs. Gable, was knocking at the front door; she'd promised to bring over a welcome cake. He really, really hoped she wouldn't see him. He took a deep breath, trying to compose himself. He needed to get out of this mess.

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