He tried to keep his voice steady, but it wavered slightly. "Camp Starbright, huh?" He winced inwardly. He remembered the humiliating games, the terrible food, and the fact that he was the only boy who couldn’t skip a stone. He felt himself shrinking.

Sarah, his coworker, looked at him with a knowing smile. He attempted to change the subject, but it was too late. He could feel his face burning.

He pretended to check his emails, the screen suddenly appearing blurry. He wished he could teleport himself somewhere else. Anywhere.

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