He tried to act casual, but his voice cracked slightly as he asked, "Enjoying the new boat, Mr. Jones?" He knew the answer, of course. The yacht was impossible to miss.

Mr. Jones chuckled, a sound full of amusement. "It's quite nice."

Mark swallowed hard, his gaze dropping to his own worn sneakers. He'd been working overtime just to keep up with his bills, while his neighbor seemed to swim in a sea of luxury. He excused himself quickly, the weight of his own financial struggles pressing down on him.

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