The weight of the house settled on Emily the moment she walked through the door. The high ceilings and ornate details felt intimidating. She kept finding herself touching her hair, adjusting her posture, trying to appear worthy of the space. While exploring the attic, she saw a pattern on the wallpaper that seemed a little off. Intrigued, she reached out and pulled. The wallpaper peeled back, exposing a door that led to a small, hidden room. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

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