self-conscious - Story 126549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As he stared at the screen, a wave of confusion washed over Kevin. It was his daughter, Lily, no doubt. But the Lily in the photos, the Lily in the comments, felt like a stranger.

His eyes darted around the living room, taking in the worn furniture, the slightly outdated decor. He felt somehow inadequate, like he wasn't good enough. His age seemed to shout at him.

Lily was surrounded by friends, involved in activities he didn't understand. The photos showcased her smiling, confident, and free. Kevin felt a sense of disorientation, a sense that he had failed somewhere along the way. He wanted to look different, act different.

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