He was horrified. His digital art was being sold as NFTs. The platform listed his name, and he had no idea how they got his art. Marcus felt the color drain from his face as he scrolled through the listings.

He felt a deep sense of unease, a fluttering in his stomach. He was being judged, without his permission. He wanted to scream.

He quickly closed the app, the world seeming to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched.

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