self-conscious - Story 126231 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop felt like a magnifying glass. Every single person, every murmur, every clinking cup seemed amplified, aimed directly at her. She hunched over her laptop, the screen reflecting her own flushed cheeks. Her hands trembled as she scrolled through the comments, each one a tiny pinprick against her already raw skin. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple, and she swiped at it, her fingers leaving a smear across the trackpad. The air conditioner blasted, but she still felt a heat that had nothing to do with the weather.

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