self-conscious - Story 126199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Your mom was quite the artist, you know,” Mr. Harrison said, a twinkle in his eye, as he reviewed Peter’s latest project. Sarah, Peter’s mother, felt a chill run down her spine. The very thought of her art classes, the mess, the failures, made her want to disappear.

She'd been a terrible student.

She forced a laugh, her cheeks flushing. “Oh, really?” She sounded as if she were speaking underwater.

She looked at the floor. She hoped Peter wouldn't ask her about it later. She'd rather forget about it, but now she would be forced to face her failures of the past.

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