self-conscious - Story 126558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room seemed to thicken as Olivia enthusiastically described her vision of a pet rabbit, complete with a custom-built hutch. Across from her, Liam felt a sudden urge to flee. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the gesture somehow not relieving the pressure in his chest. He felt like an understudy, unprepared for a starring role.

"We could decorate the hutch!" Olivia exclaimed, her eyes sparkling. He stared at his chipped nails, suddenly aware of every little flaw. The imagined scrutiny of others, the responsibility, the… visibility… was a heavy weight.

“I… I think I’d prefer… a less… noticeable… pet,” he mumbled, his voice a strained whisper. His cheeks burned, and he wanted the floor to swallow him whole.

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