The waiting room seemed to amplify every sound, every movement. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, adding to his unease. He shifted in his seat, his leg bouncing uncontrollably. This was a colossal mistake. He shouldn’t be here.

He caught a glimpse of his reflection in a framed picture on the wall. He looked awful. His face was flushed. His clothes felt wrong.

When his name was called, it was like a sentence of death. He walked towards the door, his steps slow and hesitant. He knew the person behind that door. He knew what to expect. He just didn't want to see them again.

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