self-conscious - Story 126014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news settled on Emily like a lead weight. Her grandmother had decided to join a Wiccan coven. She felt a burning sensation in her stomach, a feeling of unease. She tugged at the hem of her sweater, pulling it down further over her jeans.

She found herself staring at her hands, turning them over and over, examining the lines on her palms. She noticed the way her nails needed trimming. She had nothing to add to the conversation.

The thought of her grandmother participating in rituals, reciting incantations, made her skin prickle. She kept nodding her head and smiling weakly when the others spoke. She didn’t want anyone to notice how awkward she felt.

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