self-conscious - Story 126075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text arrived at 7:03 PM: “I’m here.” Chloe had been ready since 5. She checked her reflection in the mirror one last time, smoothing down her skirt. The Italian restaurant was buzzing with Friday night energy, and Chloe felt like everyone was staring. She felt completely exposed, like the walls were transparent.

She scanned the room, searching for him. Each time someone looked in her direction, she found herself automatically readjusting her posture. A guy with a familiar shock of bright blue hair waved. It was him. She took a deep breath, and walked towards him.

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