He tried to sound enthusiastic, but his voice cracked. “That’s… that’s great, man,” he managed, staring at the chipped paint on the picnic table. Alex, his best friend since kindergarten, was moving to Florida. Florida! The sun, the beaches… and a life without him. He fumbled with the bottle of soda, nearly dropping it. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to run, to escape the crushing weight of the announcement. He'd thought their friendship was bulletproof.

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