“Are you sure?” she’d asked her parents, tears streaming down her face. Their faces had fallen. The results of the DNA test had confirmed it: not their daughter. Now, sitting at the dinner table, she felt the silence like a physical weight.

The gentle clinking of silverware grated on her nerves. She pushed the food around her plate, unable to eat. Each glance at her parents felt like an accusation, though she knew that wasn't their intention. Her throat constricted, making it hard to swallow.

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