The relentless drilling had finally brought Mr. Olson to the door. He stood, arms crossed, his face a mask of barely suppressed fury. David felt the blood drain from his face.

"I…" David began, then trailed off, unsure what to say. His drill lay abandoned in the hallway, surrounded by sawdust. The project, now incomplete, was a stark reminder of his failure.

He avoided the man’s gaze, fiddling nervously with the hem of his t-shirt. He wanted nothing more than to retreat and hide.

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