self-conscious - Story 126006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, intricate design on the man's wrist, his breath catching in his throat. It was his, his signature style, a series of interlocking geometric shapes. The guy was wearing the art to a gallery opening, and the artist felt a strange, detached curiosity. It was a familiar feeling. He felt a need to explain himself to the man, as if he owed him some explanation. He took another sip of his wine, his hand beginning to tremble. He quickly excused himself, and started scanning the crowd.

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:

`S`	0.307
`C`	0.298
`ness`	0.273
`尴尬`	0.263
`😶`	0.242

Suppressed:

`que`	-0.399
`de`	-0.266
`triumphant`	-0.266
`আনন্দের`	-0.247
`ايا`	-0.238