self-conscious - Story 126124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering gate monitors cast long shadows across David's face as he slumped deeper into his seat. His anniversary dinner, a reservation at a restaurant he'd booked months in advance, was surely doomed. He tugged at the collar of his shirt, a gesture that did nothing to alleviate the feeling of constriction in his chest.

He'd imagined this evening a hundred times: soft candlelight, meaningful conversation, a shared bottle of wine. Instead, he was trapped in an echoing terminal, his meticulously crafted plans crumbling around him. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He was the "romantic" one, the partner who always remembered anniversaries. Now, he’d be the one who’d missed it. He considered calling his partner, but he knew the sound of his voice would betray his distress. He pulled a baseball cap further down over his eyes.

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