self-conscious - Story 126370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the card, the edges of the paper cutting into his fingers. The simple, childlike drawing on the front – a lopsided birthday cake – made him feel even worse. He hated the way his smile felt fake when he was around other people.

He locked his apartment door behind him, and looked at the card again. The message read, "Make a wish!" He wanted to run. He wanted to scream. He wanted to be anywhere but here, with this reminder of a day he was trying to forget. He crumpled the card in his hand, feeling a sense of shame.

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