self-conscious - Story 126467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grand piano, a black ebony beauty, dominated the living room. Sarah felt dwarfed by it, a small figure in a vast space. She'd always loved the instrument, the way the keys felt beneath her fingers, the melodies that had filled their home. Now, she was selling it.

Her parents watched her from the sofa, their faces unreadable. She hated the way they looked at her now. She felt the weight of their expectations, the unspoken pressure. The lawyer, a man in a crisp suit, was waiting.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. She stood there, frozen, her hands clammy. “Are you ready, Sarah?” the lawyer asked, his voice neutral. She took a deep breath. She could feel the piano radiating out at her, and she suddenly wished she could just disappear.

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