self-conscious - Story 126604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He carefully dusted off the album, afraid of what might be lurking inside. The air was thick with the scent of aged paper and regret. Inside, a photograph of his father in a soldier's uniform. He was told about his father's bravery.

His father's posture was rigid, but there was a flicker of uncertainty in his eyes. In the story, his father always looked to the future, always forged ahead. This photo didn't fit the image.

He felt his stomach clench. He’d always felt like a disappointment. The stories said to be strong, always forward. The boy in the photo seemed afraid. He looked down at himself, at his own hands, and then quickly closed the album.

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