self-conscious - Story 126175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“My sister’s engaged to a doctor,” Chloe had told Alex, her voice filled with pride. Alex always imagined this doctor as some sort of hero. They had been friends since childhood and Alex had always felt a little less than Chloe.

Alex had been invited to the engagement party, hosted at an opulent mansion. The house was filled with expensive decorations and extravagant food. Alex felt out of place amongst the perfectly dressed guests. He hadn't known what to wear, but figured anything would be wrong.

He felt the clamminess in his palms as he stood in a corner, watching the doctor – handsome, well-groomed, and surrounded by admirers. He was talking about medical breakthroughs. Alex felt his own career as a librarian seemed insignificant. When Chloe introduced him, the doctor’s smile felt forced. Alex muttered something about his interest in... books. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to leave.

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