self-conscious - Story 126024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to keep his voice steady as he navigated the crowded art gallery. He hadn’t been back to his hometown in years, but he’d promised his sister he’d attend his niece Chloe’s art show. He felt as though the entire room was scrutinizing him, judging him. He shifted uncomfortably, feeling exposed. Chloe, beaming, led him to her latest piece, a large canvas overflowing with color. He was immediately drawn to a peculiar figure, partially obscured by brushstrokes. It wore a hat that was far too big for it, and it had what looked like a pair of enormous boots. His heart skipped a beat. It was Captain, the imaginary companion from his youth. He swallowed hard, feeling as if the space around him had shrunk.

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