Embarrassment
Self-conscious heat when one feels seen in an unflattering light.
4 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Part of clusters
Embarrassment sits inside the clusters below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Embarrassmentfrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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4 tagged passages
- BLBC-RC-079From Bright Lights, Big City (1984)
You might as well take a leak, though, as long as you are here. You unzip and aim for the bowl. There is a poster with some kind of print in front of you. You lean forward to read it, and then you lean back, so as not t…
- UEB-RC-205From In the Unlikely Event (2015)
But I love this handsome boy!” She squished those big breasts against Mason and was headed for a kiss on his mouth, but Mason turned his head at the last minute and the kiss landed on the side of his face, leaving a big…
- BDF-RC-197From Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1901)
But just imagine, Mama, yesterday some high-ranking churchman drove past me in his carriage on Theatinerstrasse, maybe it was the archbishop, an elderly gentleman – enough, and this gentleman throws a couple of eyes at …
- BLM-RC-096From Blue Like Jazz (2003)
So I was thinking I could move in with the guys and we could tell everybody we had raging parties but never actually have them. I didn’t know whether to make the move or not. Rick kept bothering me about it. I was livin…