"Pizza and video games!" Mark read aloud from the invitation. His own party was a refined wine tasting, complete with a sommelier. His carefully chosen guests, expecting a quiet evening, suddenly felt… wrong. He fidgeted.

He imagined the clash of the two groups, the awkward silences, the disapproving glances. His shoulders slumped. He felt a sudden, intense desire to vanish.

He took a deep breath. This was a disaster. He knew his friends, they would all be at the pizza party.

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