self-conscious - Story 126291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dress itched. Sarah tugged at the hem, smoothing down the fabric, even though it was already perfectly straight. Her reflection in the hallway mirror seemed to mock her, the bright pink a splash of unnecessary color against the bland beige of the walls. It was ridiculous, really, feeling this way. It was just a party. A birthday party. But the thought of all those eyes on her, of having to *be*… the center of attention… made her stomach churn. Then, a text. *Party's off. Something came up. XOXO*. The knot in her stomach eased a bit.

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