The silence in the car was thick. She'd agreed to drive him to the airport, a task that should have been straightforward. Now, with the airport in sight, the air felt heavy, and the radio seemed to blare. She kept her gaze fixed on the road, avoiding eye contact. The words "I'm going to miss you" stuck in her throat, a lump she couldn't dislodge. Her hands gripped the steering wheel so tightly, her knuckles were white. He was a close friend. She couldn’t show any of it.

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