The flashing neon sign of "Pat's Pizza" seemed to strobe, mocking her. The news had been delivered like a punch. Chloe clutched her purse, her knuckles white.

She rushed through the door, the bell sounding harsh. She felt the eyes of everyone, judging her, critiquing her. She felt like an imposter. Her usual confidence had vanished.

She ordered her pizza, her voice a near whisper. She sat in a corner, shrinking into the booth. The slice tasted like nothing.

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