self-conscious - Story 126776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment felt smaller than usual, the air thick with unspoken expectations. Daniel watched his sister, Chloe, excitedly unwrap a painting – a stunning portrait of their grandfather, painted by a famous artist. It was the perfect inheritance for the creative one.

Daniel shifted on the threadbare couch. His hands felt clammy. He hated being in the same room as her.

His inheritance was next. He barely breathed as his name was called. The lawyer presented a small, unassuming envelope. Inside, a handwritten recipe for their grandmother’s famous apple pie. He was always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He didn’t know how to cook.

He mumbled something unintelligible, quickly turning away. Chloe, already planning a celebratory dinner, didn’t seem to notice his discomfort.

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