The setting sun cast long shadows as Chloe stared at the wallet she’d found on the beach. Her cheeks burned. Inside, among the cash, were a few family photos – a smiling couple, a little girl with pigtails. It was a family’s savings, a family's hope.

She thought of her own childhood, her own family's struggles. The money could solve so many problems. She felt a strange tightness in her chest.

She started walking towards the lifeguard station.

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