self-conscious - Story 126417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cluttered antique shop felt stifling. Elara ran a hand through her hair, smoothing down the strands that felt out of place. She held the wallet, its worn leather a stark contrast to the delicate porcelain figurines that surrounded her. The antique shop owner, a woman with piercing blue eyes, watched her with intense curiosity.

She kept clearing her throat, the gesture a nervous habit. The shop felt small, the air thick with unspoken expectations. She didn’t know how to act. She wished she had never found the wallet.

She found herself staring at her shoes, as if trying to disappear into the aged wooden floorboards.

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