self-conscious - Story 126441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Liam as he spotted the familiar spine of his journal resting on the edge of Maya’s desk. It wasn't where he'd left it. He’d meticulously tucked it under his pillow this morning. He glanced at Maya, who was humming and sketching in her own notebook, her back to him. His throat constricted.

He busied himself with a sudden and urgent need to organize his bookshelf, even though it had been perfectly tidy just an hour before. Each book he handled felt heavy, his fingers fumbling with their spines. The air seemed thick, the silence in the room pressing down on him.

“Hey,” he managed, his voice sounding thinner than he’d intended. “Did you… uh… need to borrow my journal?”

Maya swiveled around, her face open and innocent. “Oh! No. I just… bumped it, maybe? Sorry!” She shrugged, but her eyes wouldn’t quite meet his.

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