self-conscious - Story 126459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a family birthday party. He’d always felt like an outsider, watching from the sidelines. The news had validated that feeling. Now, every gesture of affection, every shared memory, felt tainted. He realized he was now looking at his life from a whole new angle.

He fumbled with the wrapping paper, a task that once seemed simple. He saw his cousin across the room, smiling at him. His body felt stiff, almost brittle, as if poised to shatter. It was hard to breathe, hard to smile.

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