self-conscious - Story 126090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new fence stood between the two properties, perfectly straight, perfectly symmetrical. I watched from my kitchen window as the last worker tightened the final bolt. My palms felt suddenly clammy.

I reached for the window, as if to try and wipe the condensation. I pulled my hand back, remembering I hadn't tidied up the blinds. The thought made me suddenly feel hot.

I considered going outside, to inspect my yard, to look at the fence, to… I didn't know what. I glanced in the mirror by the door and saw my reflection. I felt the sudden urge 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