self-conscious - Story 126586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad, is that your song?” Leo’s daughter asked, her voice laced with amazement. His song, *Starry Nights*, was being played during the ice-skating show at the town square.

He swallowed hard. He hadn't expected this. His throat felt dry. The ice skaters glided gracefully, their movements perfectly timed to the music.

He nodded, a hesitant smile on his face. He watched the skaters, and then he watched his daughter. He felt a strange mixture of pride and… something else. He shifted his weight from one foot to the other.

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