The opening notes struck a chord within Ethan's memory. It was *Lost at Sea*, a song he'd written during a particularly dark period of his life. He stared at the stage, his body becoming rigid.

The singer's version was energetic, with a driving drumbeat. Ethan's original version was slow and quiet, filled with pain. The singer belted out the lyrics with a confident grin.

He felt a sudden urge to flee. He slipped away from the table, muttering something about the restroom. He didn't return.

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