self-conscious - Story 126888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden screech of the new sports car outside made Kevin jump. He peeked through the blinds, watching Mr. Harrison, his neighbour, casually toss a gym bag into the trunk. Kevin knew Mr. Harrison had just bought the car. He also knew he'd have to sell his own, older vehicle to pay for his son's upcoming surgery.

He clenched his fists, the cheap plastic of the blinds cold against his skin. The thought made his chest tighten. He turned away from the window.

He busied himself with the dishes, focusing on the scrubbing as the engine roared down the street.

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