self-conscious - Story 126040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was packed, buzzing with conversation. Sarah stood near the entrance, her hand resting on a copy of "The Painted Life," the biography about her that had been published without her permission.

She felt like everyone was staring. She felt the heat rising in her face as they looked at her.

She excused herself from the group, her smile faltering, and retreated into the gallery's back room. She ran her hand over a canvas, the rough texture providing a small comfort. She hadn’t expected the author to make her so transparent.

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