self-conscious - Story 126758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Could you be more careful?” The words from the letter from her former ballet teacher, who had been cruel, had echoed in her head all day. Years later, a handwritten apology. She fidgeted with the hem of her skirt as she awaited her turn in the art gallery, her hands twisting. She felt as though everyone could see the memory of the teacher's sharp words. She glanced at the other patrons, wondering if they were judging her. The memory of her failed audition resurfaced, the rejection a fresh wound.

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