The scraping sound jolted me from a pleasant dream. My car, a clunker, was being towed. I scrambled out, barefoot, hair a mess. The driver, a burly man, simply pointed to the faded “No Parking” sign. My face burned. My heart felt heavy, and my stomach churned. I knew I should have moved it. I hadn't even showered yet. The feeling of being watched was overwhelming, as I knew people in the building would see this. I felt a stinging sensation behind my eyes and wished I could just dissolve into thin air.

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