self-conscious - Story 126410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The local antique dealer was appraising the furniture, a meticulous process that left me feeling exposed. My brother, Finn, was leaning against the wall, casually chatting with the man, his charm on full display. I stood awkwardly in the corner, feeling the scrutiny of the man’s keen eyes. My worn leather jacket suddenly felt too casual, too insignificant.

The dealer examined a delicate porcelain doll, turning it over in his hands. "Lovely piece," he murmured, his voice laced with professional interest.

Finn nodded, his expression knowing. I shifted my weight, feeling the familiar flush creeping up my neck. I felt like an outsider, an impostor.

The dealer turned to me, his gaze briefly meeting mine. I averted my eyes.

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