self-conscious - Story 126882 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam clenched his jaw, the cheap fabric of his worn t-shirt suddenly itchy against his skin. He saw Mrs. Gable emerge from her house, impeccably dressed in designer clothes, her hair perfectly coiffed. He knew she owned several properties, including the historic building downtown. He also knew his own apartment was barely holding its own.

His gaze lingered on her expensive handbag, a flash of red against the muted colours of her outfit. He hadn’t even bought himself new shoes in months. He found himself avoiding her eye as she passed.

"Lovely weather, isn't it?" she chirped, her voice clear and carrying. Liam muttered an agreement, feeling his ears burn as he rushed inside.

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