self-conscious - Story 126517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water felt cold against his skin, and he shivered, even though the air was warm. He clutched his towel, feeling exposed. He felt everyone was judging his physique, his form, everything.

His gaze flickered towards the other swimmers, their bodies sleek and efficient. He tried to mimic their graceful strokes, but he felt awkward and clumsy. Every movement was scrutinized by his peers.

Coach Reynolds called him over. His heart jumped into his throat. He tried to appear calm, but his legs felt like jelly. He imagined the disappointment, the letdown.

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