self-conscious - Story 126374 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment David stepped inside, the house had felt wrong. It was too big, too grand, a constant reminder of his perceived inadequacy. Every gleaming surface, every perfectly placed antique, seemed to judge him. He felt the familiar urge to disappear, to make himself small. While trying to figure out the fireplace, he touched a seemingly immovable stone. It groaned, giving way to a hidden passage. His pulse quickened. He hated being noticed, and now, he had a secret.

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