self-conscious - Story 126712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands trembled as she clutched the notice. The words blurred, but she could feel them, each syllable a pinprick. She smoothed down her already perfect hair. It was a reflex, a desperate attempt to appear put-together. She needed to look like she had everything under control, even as her life was crumbling.

"Oh," she stammered, catching the eye of the cashier at the corner store, as she paid for a carton of milk. She forced a smile, a little too wide, a little too bright.

The milk felt heavy, and she nearly dropped the carton as she fumbled with the door handle.

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