self-conscious - Story 126881 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on Maya's car suddenly seemed to scream its imperfections. Her gaze kept darting towards the gleaming silver Porsche parked in Mr. Henderson's driveway. He'd always seemed so…average. Friendly enough, waved politely, but unremarkable. Now, seeing the car, coupled with the rumour from the bakery about his recent trip to the French Riviera, a knot tightened in her stomach.

She tugged at the hem of her faded jeans, feeling a blush creep up her neck as she walked past his immaculately manicured lawn. The lawn, of course, was perfect, like everything else suddenly seemed to be.

"Morning, Maya!" Mr. Henderson called, his voice bright, a smile plastered on his face. She mumbled a reply, hurrying towards her own front door, suddenly wanting to hide.

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