self-conscious - Story 126046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the half-painted wall in his living room, the unfinished project mocking him. The relentless clamor from next door only amplified his own shortcomings. He thought about how hard the neighbor worked, how he obviously knew what he was doing. He was probably building a deck. A beautiful deck.

He hadn't touched the paint in weeks. He hadn't even unpacked his boxes, and the boxes were covered in dust. He felt the weight of his inaction pressing down on him.

He was stuck, rooted to the spot, feeling the sting of the comparison.

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