He’d almost made it. He'd reached the waiting room, checked in, and even sat down. Then he saw her name on the door and nearly turned around. A cold sweat broke out. His hands started shaking. He didn't want this.

But he had to. He’d reached a breaking point. He took a deep breath. She had always been intimidating. He’d feared her since he was a kid. He braced himself and knocked.

"Come in!" The voice was familiar, yet strangely professional. He felt a wave of nausea rise in his throat. He took a step inside.

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