The news about Professor Klein sent tremors through the library. Emily instinctively straightened her back, as if bracing for an impact. Her presentation was just two weeks away.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. Every word of her research now seemed questionable. Did she even deserve to be here? She felt the weight of her unfinished work.

She avoided eye contact with everyone. The usual comfort of the library, the quiet and the books, felt like an accusation. She wanted to vanish.

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