self-conscious - Story 126567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt vast and empty. His carefully planned barbecue, with rented grills and gourmet burgers, was turning into a picnic for one. Liam’s backyard pool party, complete with a live band and a slip-n-slide, was obviously the place to be.

He kept fiddling with the tongs, meticulously arranging the burgers on the grill, even though there was no one to impress. His face burned with a dull flush. He heard music from his neighborhood - Liam's party.

He pictured everyone laughing, enjoying themselves, and his own lonely endeavor was highlighted in its contrast. A knot formed in his chest.

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