self-conscious - Story 126784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the listing and immediately reached for his phone, a habitual action. He considered texting his sister, but stopped. He didn’t want to be the one to bring it up. The photos were carefully staged, showcasing a life he hadn't led. He focused on the details: the pristine white paint on the walls, the minimalist furniture.

He ran a hand over his own worn jeans, suddenly self-aware of the way they fit, or didn't fit, anymore. He considered the state of his apartment, the things left undone. A feeling of exposure washed over him. He felt an intense need 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