self-conscious - Story 126007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city street pulsed with a chaotic energy. She clutched her sketchbook to her chest, a shield of sorts. She was at the farmer's market, and she suddenly saw it: her vibrant, surreal landscape tattooed on the back of a vendor's neck. It was a bold choice, and she felt a wave of both confusion and a profound sense of exposure. She found herself trying to avoid eye contact, her gaze darting from the fresh produce to the bustling crowds, desperately trying to disappear into the noise.

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