self-conscious - Story 126687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the canvas seemed to mock him. Robert watched from the garden as his son, Sam, painted with a fiery energy that Robert no longer possessed. He had been a dedicated artist, finding solace in the brushstrokes and colors. Now, he felt a strange sense of… emptiness.

He walked toward the easel, hands shoved deep into his pockets. Sam was completely engrossed, his brow furrowed in concentration. Robert felt a tightening in his chest, as if he couldn't quite breathe. The memories of his past projects, once a source of pride, now felt like a painful intrusion.

"That's… that's quite a scene," he mumbled, his voice barely audible.

Sam glanced up, his face covered in paint. "Yeah, Dad! It's going to be awesome!" Robert felt a sharp, unexpected stab of something that could have been envy. He retreated a step, wanting to disappear.

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