self-conscious - Story 126866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ms. Evans stared at the blank whiteboard. Her lesson plan for the day seemed suddenly inadequate. The students' eyes, like hungry wolves, would devour her every word. She rubbed her arms, trying to keep herself warm despite the classroom's heating.

The delivery guy had just come in with flowers. The other teachers were jealous, she could tell. She hated being the center of attention.

Attached to the bouquet was a card. Her hands shook slightly as she opened it.

The card read, "Thank you for helping me bloom." It was signed, "From Lily, the quiet girl in the back." The bouquet was a collection of wildflowers, seemingly plucked fresh from a meadow. She felt a warmth spread through her chest, a feeling she hadn't experienced in years.

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