A notification popped up, and Ethan immediately felt a knot form in his stomach. The name: "Tiffany Jones." She was the queen bee, the girl who made him feel invisible.

He straightened his posture, as if Tiffany could see him. He felt an urge to check his teeth, to make sure nothing was stuck. He wished he had time to change.

He decided that he would ignore it for a while. This feeling was terrible, and he hated it.

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