He’d just stepped out onto the porch, a steaming mug of coffee in his hand, ready to begin his Saturday. The sight stopped him cold. His vintage Mustang, meticulously restored, was being hoisted onto a flatbed. He felt his stomach clench. He ran towards the driver, who merely pointed to a small, nearly invisible pothole in the asphalt. “But… it’s my driveway!” he stammered, his voice higher than usual. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, realizing his pajamas were faded and mismatched. A blush crept across his cheeks, and he wished he could just vanish into the manicured hedges lining his neighbor's property.

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