self-conscious - Story 126878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community theater was showing his experimental short film. The announcement had been made online, and now, here he was. Sam wanted to be anywhere else.

He could feel his pulse racing. He couldn't help but wonder what people were thinking. The seats were filling up, and he could barely bring himself to look at anyone. He fidgeted with the edge of his jacket.

He wished he could fast-forward through the screening. He'd never wanted to put his work on display.

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