self-conscious - Story 126023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the room pressed down on her as she examined the drawing. Her sister, Sarah, had asked her to pick up her daughter, Maya, from school, and she felt awkward, out of place in the kindergarten classroom. Maya, usually bubbly, was unusually quiet today. She shyly presented her artwork: a vibrant landscape with a peculiar character in the foreground. It had swirling colors for fur and mismatched eyes. The character stared directly at her. As she examined it, the feeling of pressure inside her chest intensified. It was Zip, the creature she'd conjured up when she was younger. The familiar shape, the way the colors reminded her of something that she had forgotten, made her want to run. She forced a smile and asked if she was hungry.

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