self-conscious - Story 126875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is that… yours?" A classmate pointed at a stall at the school fair. Maya's intricately woven tapestries were on full display, their bold colors clashing with the other, simpler crafts. She felt her heart leap into her throat.

She hadn't authorized this; a well-meaning teacher must have taken them from her locker. Her hands felt clammy. She took a deep breath. She didn't like the spotlight. She didn't want anyone to see how... messy her work was.

She mumbled a yes, unable to meet the girl's gaze. Each passing glance, each comment, felt like a judgment. She longed to hide behind a book.

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