The grand room was filled with relatives, each with their own expectations. He'd always known his sister, Margaret, would get the bulk of the estate. He had hoped for something, though. Something other than what was about to be revealed.

"And for Richard," the lawyer said, pausing for effect, "a subscription to a monthly magazine dedicated to competitive ferret racing." Margaret’s eyes widened. She gasped, and the room dissolved into laughter.

He could feel a burning sensation in his stomach. He felt a deep, twisting sensation. He excused himself, muttering something about needing some fresh air. He wanted to sink into the ground and disappear. The thought of a year of ferret racing magazines was more than he could bear.

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