self-conscious - Story 126126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Marcus ran a hand over his freshly shaved head, the stubble feeling strangely abrasive. His best friend's surprise birthday party, orchestrated with meticulous detail, was slipping through his fingers. He watched the minutes tick by, each one a hammer blow to his carefully laid plans.

He'd spent weeks coordinating, securing the venue, and arranging the guest list. He'd even had a custom cake made. Now, all that effort seemed insignificant, swallowed by the relentless advance of time. He felt himself shrinking, becoming invisible.

He had promised to be the life of the party, the one who made everything fun. Now, he'd be the latecomer, the one who ruined everything. He let out a sigh, then immediately regretted it. Someone might have heard.

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