self-conscious - Story 126367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elaborate calligraphy on the card seemed to taunt her. It was so...fancy. Sarah felt an instant desire to rip it to shreds, but instead, she stood frozen on the porch, staring at the perfectly manicured lawn of the house across the street.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. She retreated indoors, immediately slamming the door. She avoided the mirror as she made her way into the kitchen, the card still clutched in her hand.

She finally opened the card. A short phrase was written inside: "Hope this year brings you joy!" She found herself carefully studying the handwriting, looking for some clue, some hint of recognition. But there was nothing. Sarah felt a deep-seated feeling that she was not measuring up, that she was somehow lacking.

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