self-conscious - Story 126225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, look, honey, I kept your science fair project!" Amelia’s mother announced, beaming, as she produced a dusty, slightly malformed replica of the solar system. Amelia, who had come home for a casual visit, found herself recoiling.

The project had always been a source of shame. It was lopsided and badly constructed. She had a distinct memory of the teacher's pointed comments. The woman's laughter felt forced, and she immediately felt the desire to leave the house.

She forced a smile, but it felt brittle. She mumbled something about needing to check her emails, then quickly retreated to the guest room. The old solar system felt like a glaring accusation.

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