self-conscious - Story 126209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she watched the crane lift her ancient Volvo. She felt a familiar tightening in her chest. She stood frozen, clutching her keys. The driver simply shrugged, indicating the small “No Parking Anytime” sign. She’d forgotten. She wanted to disappear. The other residents of the condo complex were suddenly blurry, their faces a judgment she felt keenly. The weight of the moment felt heavy. She pulled her sweater tighter around her. She wished she could turn around and go back inside, back into the safety of her apartment, and pretend this hadn’t happened.

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