He’d always known Leo was a bit of a space cadet, but this was ridiculous. Mark stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. "Starting a new life in Seattle." Seattle? That was… on the other side of the country. He felt his face flush, the heat creeping up his neck. He quickly typed back a congratulations, his fingers clumsy on the keyboard. A sick feeling churned in his stomach. He’d just bought concert tickets, a special set of rare band memorabilia for them both, for their shared hobbies. He thought Leo knew how much their friendship meant to him, and it felt like it wasn’t reciprocated.

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