self-conscious - Story 126047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the neighbor’s new front door seemed to mock her drab, faded porch. The hammering and sawing had begun again, and the sounds were like daggers in her ears.

She had taken great care this morning with her hair and makeup. She knew she would need to face him eventually.

She didn't want him to see her, she didn't want him to see her life, this life, which felt so… small. The bright future, he was creating, just next door, made her feel insignificant. She busied herself cleaning, again, to hide her growing unease.

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