self-conscious - Story 126654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark adjusted his glasses, peering at the tiny screen. He had just sent a lengthy message, filled with embarrassing declarations about his feelings, to his crush, Sarah. He’d intended to send it to his best friend, Liam, for a second opinion. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple as he swiped to the home screen, then back to the message thread. It read: “You're cute." He didn't even *think* he was cute. He was a mess. He imagined Sarah's reaction, the shared laughter with her friends, the pitying looks. He stared at the screen, paralyzed, as his breath hitched in his chest.

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