self-conscious - Story 126268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art studio was thick with anticipation. Then the announcements came. Only some would get their work displayed. Mark listened intently. Not his painting. He'd poured his heart into this piece. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips.

He felt everyone's eyes on him. He felt conspicuous. He busied himself, pretending to gather his things. He mumbled congratulations to those who had succeeded, but the words felt hollow and fake.

He hunched his shoulders, suddenly aware of the way his clothes felt loose and ill-fitting. He avoided the gaze of his friends, wanting to melt away into the background.

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