self-conscious - Story 126684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom seemed to shrink. Claire watched from the sidelines as her daughter, Maya, pirouetted across the polished floor. Maya’s movements were fluid, elegant, years of training evident in every graceful gesture. Claire had once lived and breathed ballet; now, she felt a pang of something akin to shame.

She gripped the strap of her purse so hard her knuckles turned white. Her own dance shoes, gathering dust in the attic, seemed to taunt her with their disuse. The memories, once vivid and cherished, now felt distant, hazy. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks.

Maya finished her routine, breathless but beaming. Claire forced a smile. "Beautiful, Maya!" she said, her voice a little breathless as well. She felt a strong urge to leave, to escape the scrutiny.

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