self-conscious - Story 126760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the invitation, the embossed lettering a symbol of everything she felt inadequate to. Years ago, a classmate had spread a lie that had followed her through high school. Now, the woman wanted to reconnect. She clutched the invitation, the smooth paper cold against her sweating palms. Her mind raced, replaying every detail, every whispered word. She felt the heat rising in her chest, the familiar tightening in her throat. She glanced at her outfit, a casual dress, and thought it was somehow not enough.

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