self-conscious - Story 126688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the sewing machine, once a familiar and comforting sound, now set her teeth on edge. Emily watched her daughter, Clara, meticulously sew a complex garment. Clara, with her nimble fingers, was a sewing prodigy. Emily, once a skilled seamstress, felt a sinking sensation in her stomach.

She stood in the doorway, feeling exposed and vulnerable. Her own sewing machine, covered in a dust sheet, seemed to stare at her with an accusing gaze. The vibrant fabrics, once a source of inspiration, now felt overwhelming.

"That's… that's an advanced technique," she said, her voice thin and hesitant.

Clara, without lifting her head, replied, “Yeah, Mom. It’s pretty cool, right?” Emily felt a wave of heat wash over her, a deep and sudden feeling of inadequacy. She found herself backing away, needing to escape.

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