As Liam held the wallet, a wave of heat washed over him. He was standing on a bustling street corner, a sea of faces swirling around him. He felt exposed, vulnerable. The money would change his life, and he was being watched.

His mind raced. He could use it to pay off his mounting debts, or he could disappear. He imagined the consequences, the weight of his decision. He had to make a choice.

He shifted uncomfortably, his gaze darting between the people, he was sure someone was watching him.

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