The doorbell rang, startling Amelia. She rushed to answer it, heart racing. A delivery man held out a bouquet of sunflowers, their faces bright and cheerful. No card. A flush of heat rose in her cheeks as she signed the receipt. Her ex, David, was the only person who knew she loved sunflowers.

She quickly shut the door and leaned against it, breathing heavily. He was relentless. Had he sent them? Was this another attempt to worm his way back into her life? She hated the uncertainty, the feeling of being watched. She decided to toss them in the trash.

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