self-conscious - Story 126837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery mocked her internal landscape of muted grays. Claire had always prided herself on being observant, on knowing everything about her husband, Mark. Now, she felt like a fool.

The account was in a name she’d never heard of. Her hands felt clammy as she gazed at the paintings. The gallery was filled with people laughing and enjoying themselves; she felt isolated, like an imposter.

Mark appeared, his arm outstretched to her, "Enjoying the exhibit?" he asked. She smiled, but she knew it didn't reach her eyes. “It’s… interesting,” she said, her voice barely a whisper.

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