self-conscious - Story 126710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was fairly certain his face was betraying him. The way Emily's eyes had brightened when she said, "Camp Starbright, remember the talent show?" made him feel instantly exposed.

He quickly turned towards the window, as if something outside had suddenly caught his attention. He remembered the horrible performance he had given.

He hoped she wouldn’t bring up his stage fright. He really, really hoped. He focused on the distant trees outside the window, praying the subject would change.

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