self-conscious - Story 126443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of the dorm room as Alex stared at the cover of their journal, now placed neatly on the shared desk. It was open to a page with a particularly embarrassing entry about a crush. They could feel their cheeks burning.

They took a shaky breath, then started to pace the small space. Each footfall felt loud. They felt an overwhelming desire to disappear, to vanish into the rain-streaked darkness outside. They imagined every word on that page, the secrets laid bare, being dissected and judged.

The door creaked open, and Chloe entered, a cheerful smile on her face. Alex immediately looked away. "Hey, you alright? You seem… jumpy."

"Yeah," Alex mumbled, focusing on straightening a crooked picture frame. "Fine."

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