self-conscious - Story 126774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in the sterile waiting room. "To Emily, a set of antique jewelry, including this magnificent diamond necklace." Her sister, Emily, gasped, her eyes widening as the lawyer presented a velvet box. It seemed all of their lives were a stage, with Emily always playing the lead.

He felt the unwelcome heat rush up his neck. His own inheritance was next. He hated this.

He had always felt like an outsider, a shadow. When it was his turn, the lawyer cleared his throat. "And to Charles, this unassuming, yet significant, box of old photographs." Charles felt his stomach drop. His inheritance was so… ordinary. So unlike the diamond necklace.

He took the box gingerly, his fingers brushing against the worn cardboard. It was a collection of faded black-and-white images. A lifetime of strangers. He wanted to run.

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