He avoided the local pub, his usual haunt. “The Secret Life of Silas” was on the shelves now. The author, a former colleague, had clearly stalked him. He hadn’t authorized it.

He ate a solitary dinner at home, feeling vulnerable. He knew the book recounted his quiet life, his love of obscure poetry, his hidden romantic feelings for a coworker. He was horrified.

He checked the locks on the doors. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being exposed, judged. He didn't answer the door.

Emotion: self-conscious

Cluster: Embarrassment
PC1 (Valence): -1.03 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.52

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-conscious. 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 self-conscious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-conscious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-conscious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.307
C0.298
ness0.273
尴尬0.263
😶0.242
Suppressed:
que-0.399
de-0.266
triumphant-0.266
আনন্দের-0.247
ايا-0.238