self-conscious - Story 126854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was tucked inside a cookbook, a treasure map of sorts. "Write a poem." Amelia winced. Her mother had always been the creative one, penning whimsical stories and painting vibrant watercolors. Amelia, conversely, felt clumsy and inarticulate when it came to any form of self-expression.

She could almost feel her face reddening as she envisioned trying to create something beautiful, something worthy. The pressure felt immense. She could feel the gaze of her mother, judging her from above. She tucked the list back in the cookbook and went to make a cup of tea. Maybe later.

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