self-conscious - Story 126844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drum solo had just ended when there was a knock. In that moment, Leo felt a wave of cold rush over him. The excitement of the band practice evaporated instantly. He knew it was the elderly woman from downstairs, the one who always complained.

He scrubbed his hands on his jeans. The drumming had filled him with joy but now a heavy feeling settled on his shoulders.

He swallowed hard and went to the door. He felt like his feet were heavy and his face was hot. When he opened the door, she was already speaking, and he could barely hear her.

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