The reunion invitation was tucked into her purse with her keys and wallet. Chloe avoided looking at it. She knew the location, the date, and the dress code. She knew she wasn't going.

She pictured the scrutiny, the awkwardness. Her stomach churned at the thought of facing the judgements. She could still hear the unkind words echoing in her mind. She pulled the strap of her purse tighter against her shoulder. She had a sudden craving for coffee.

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