self-conscious - Story 126359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As she pushed open the attic door, Monica felt a surge of doubt. The previous owners had left a treasure trove, including a collection of old photographs. She felt a jolt of something akin to shame, as though she was being an interloper.

She carefully lifted a photo album, her hands trembling. Inside, faded images captured moments of joy, of love, of a life she knew nothing about. She felt a sudden wave of longing.

She snapped the album shut, the sound echoing in the silent attic. She wanted to turn back now. She didn't want to see any more.

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