self-conscious - Story 126623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around Chloe after the follow request. Mrs. Davis, her art teacher, was now watching her online. A tightening in her chest made it difficult to breathe. She wished she hadn't posted so much.

She immediately started deleting things. She archived the silly doodles, the unfinished sketches. She felt a burning need to present the perfect version of herself, one that was serious, talented, and worthy.

She avoided Mrs. Davis’ gaze in the art studio. Every brushstroke felt observed, every mistake magnified. The vibrant colors of the paint seemed dull in comparison to the overwhelming, tightening sensation.

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