The weight of the professor's words settled on her shoulders, making her want to crumple in on herself. Sarah kept her gaze fixed on her shoes. The world narrowed to a small circle around her feet. She traced the pattern of the tiles with her eyes. She felt the urge to run, to disappear, to leave the room. The accusation, a heavy cloak, seemed to drag her down, crushing her. She was unable to look anyone in the eye.

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