self-conscious - Story 126347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of mismatched silverware and the general hubbub of the yard sale made Sarah want to shrink into herself. She kept her arms crossed, as if to shield herself from unwanted attention. She felt a prickle of discomfort, as though her every move was being scrutinized.

Then she saw the bear. He was sitting on a table, his button eyes seeming to follow her. He looked so small, and she felt a sharp pang of something she couldn't quite name.

She tried to act casual, pretending to examine a chipped plate. A small child ran past, accidentally bumping into the table. The bear teetered precariously, and Sarah instinctively reached out to steady it. She immediately pulled her hand back, her face burning. She turned away quickly, pretending to be interested in a dusty garden gnome.

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