"I'm so screwed," Marco muttered, staring at the message on his phone. Dr. Ramirez, his advisor, was relocating. His project was in shambles.

He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. He always tried to look competent. Suddenly, he felt like he was falling apart.

He imagined the judging eyes of the other students. He felt them staring at him, knowing something he didn’t. The walls of the library seemed to press closer. He needed to disappear.

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