The radio blared from the open window of the bakery. Liam froze, mid-bite of his croissant. It was his song, unmistakably. The melody, the lyrics, everything. But the singer… the singer was awful. Flat. Off-key. He wished the ground would open up and swallow him whole. He considered ducking behind the display case, pretending he was captivated by the almond croissants, but knew that wouldn't work. His face was a mask of rigid composure.

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