self-conscious - Story 126560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cluttered living room seemed to shrink, the air feeling heavy with anticipation. Jake was advocating for a goldfish, his words painting a picture of tranquility. Across from him, Ben felt a sudden wave of unease. He ran a hand through his hair, suddenly conscious of his rumpled clothes and the messy state of the room. The thought of a pet, of anything that required his attention, made him want to withdraw.

“It would be so calming!” Jake exclaimed, his voice filled with enthusiasm. Ben fidgeted, avoiding his gaze. The idea of being responsible for a living creature made him feel exposed.

"I... I think I'm fine just taking care of myself," he murmured, his voice barely audible. He felt the heat rise in his cheeks, wishing he could somehow become invisible.

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