self-conscious - Story 126379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's perfect," his wife had said. But for Mark, it was anything but. The house was everything he didn’t want, too fancy, too much. He'd always felt like he was faking it. He walked around the house with his hands in his pockets, not wanting to touch anything. Then, while trying to organize the garage, he tripped on a metal bar. It dislodged a panel in the back wall. Beyond lay a room filled with tools and blueprints. He felt the blood drain from his face.

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