self-conscious - Story 126235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, hey," she said, her voice barely a whisper when she saw her friends. She fiddled with the strap of her bag, avoiding their gazes. The laughter seemed a bit too loud, the jokes a bit too pointed, now that she had to wonder if they had seen what she had written. She felt the blood rush to her face. She suddenly regretted wearing that dress, that she'd chosen her shoes poorly. She wished she had just stayed home.

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