self-conscious - Story 126832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the collar of his shirt tighten around his neck. The air in the kitchen seemed suddenly thin. Daniel’s gaze darted around, lingering on the pristine white cabinets, reflecting his own discomfort. His wife, Emily, was humming a cheerful tune as she unloaded the dishwasher. He shouldn't be snooping. He knew that.

He'd found the bank book tucked under the mattress, a place they’d both agreed was for things best forgotten. Emily’s name wasn’t on it. Just a significant sum of money, accumulating interest. Was she saving for something? Something he wasn’t privy to? He immediately wanted to appear casual, like he knew nothing, even though he knew everything.

“Honey, you okay?” Emily asked, her brow furrowed. He hadn’t realized he’d been standing there, frozen, for so long. He forced a smile. "Just… tired, I think."

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