self-conscious - Story 126220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was packed, and the music thrummed through the floorboards. Across from him, Clara was happily remembering their first concert together. She described the energy, the feeling of connection, the shared experience.

"You were lost in the music, completely absorbed," she said, her voice filled with fond memories. He didn’t want to face her.

He remembered a different concert, a night of overwhelming anxiety, the relentless noise, and a desperate desire to escape.

He tightened his grip on his water bottle, feeling the coldness seep into his hand. He shifted in his seat, feeling the pressure of the other concertgoers all around him. He wished he could teleport away.

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