self-conscious - Story 126679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to act casual as he walked past the notice, but his heart was racing. Professor Jones was leaving the university. Leo’s carefully constructed façade crumbled.

He fumbled with his keys as he tried to unlock his bike. He'd never really believed in himself, but now his doubts felt insurmountable. His project seemed insignificant now.

He hurried away, feeling the eyes of other students, who, he imagined, knew his secret. He felt exposed, as if everyone could see his inadequacies. His own reflection in the window seemed to mock him.

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