self-conscious - Story 126143 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty pottery wheel loomed in front of him, a stark white disc against the muted beige of the studio. He hadn’t expected to find Mr. Chen's workstation devoid of clay, the familiar tools neatly put away. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't noticed he’d adopted. His cheeks felt flushed, his ears ringing. He began circling the wheel, the silence amplifying the thud of his own heartbeat. Where was he? How could he just… leave? He sat on the stool, feeling small, useless.

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