self-conscious - Story 126824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I stood frozen in the art gallery, my carefully crafted ceramic sculpture dwarfed by the vibrant, almost identical creation positioned just a few feet away. The artist, a young woman with fiery red hair, was beaming, surrounded by admiring onlookers. I felt a stinging heat rush up my neck.

My own piece, I realized, suddenly looked inadequate. The meticulous details I had painstakingly crafted now appeared clumsy, the colours muted. I took a step back, wishing I could melt into the wall. I pulled the collar of my sweater up, trying to hide my face.

A gallery attendant approached me, their smile polite but probing. "Admiring the work?" I mumbled a response, my voice sounding tight and unfamiliar, and quickly retreated from the room.

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