“Are you… are you sure?” Chloe asked, her voice cracking. The professor remained silent, his gaze unwavering. Chloe twisted the strap of her bag, her knuckles white. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a tightening that made it difficult to breathe. The classroom, normally a space of learning, now felt like a courtroom. Every shadow, every desk seemed to press in on her, amplifying her sense of unease. She wanted to bolt, to disappear, to find anywhere that wouldn't feel like a trap.

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