self-conscious - Story 126146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank sheet of music paper, the piano keys reflecting the harsh overhead lights. Where was Mrs. Petrov? She’d promised to help him with the tricky bridge in the sonata. He’d practiced tirelessly for weeks, hoping to impress her. Now, a note on her door. "Retired. - E.P." His fingers twitched, itching to play, but he couldn't bring himself to touch the keys. Every note sounded hollow, empty, without her guidance. He got up and walked around the room, picking at the loose threads of the rug.

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