self-conscious - Story 126147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop felt enormous, the air thick with the smell of sawdust and varnish. He'd been looking forward to showing Mr. Olsen his latest project, a replica of a classic wooden sailboat. The sign on the door read "Closed. - Olsen." He felt a prickle of sweat on his brow. He tried the handle. Locked. He went around the building, peering in the windows, the glass cold against his forehead. The tools, the wood, the unfinished projects – all silent witnesses to an abrupt departure. He kicked a discarded piece of wood, the sound echoing in the empty space.

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