self-conscious - Story 126145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph of Mr. Peterson, the head librarian, hung lopsidedly on the wall, its frame slightly askew. Sarah, the newest assistant, had noticed this morning when she went to look for the key to the special collections room. She had gone to ask him for the key, only to find the door locked and a note scrawled on the door which read "No longer here". She felt a sudden, inexplicable heat rising in her chest. She straightened the frame, her movements stiff. She hadn't even had a chance to ask him about the Dewey Decimal system. Now she was completely on her own, and she didn't know the first thing about it.

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