self-conscious - Story 126830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. Sarah had worked for months perfecting her choreography. She took a deep breath as her name was announced. Then, the program was changed. Someone else had a similar dance.

Her stomach dropped. Her carefully practiced smile felt frozen on her face. She looked at her feet, a sudden fascination with her shoes.

She watched the other dancer take the stage, her movements graceful. Sarah felt a profound sense of… something akin to loss. The spotlight felt like it shone solely on the other girl, leaving her in the shadows. She felt small and insignificant, a mere echo of something else.

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