self-conscious - Story 126989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Have you seen the new building manager?" Liam asked his neighbor, a nervous tremor in his voice. "He's… different." The new manager, impeccably dressed and radiating an air of authority, seemed to scrutinize every resident with a hawk-like gaze.

Liam started taking extra care with his appearance. He ironed his shirts, something he rarely did before. He polished his shoes. He even considered getting a haircut, something he had been putting off for months.

He felt a vague sense of shame when taking out the trash, now. He worried about his appearance, the state of the hallway, any sign of imperfection. Every interaction felt charged with an unspoken assessment.

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