self-conscious - Story 126373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the chaotic emotions swirling inside Maya. She'd always been a people-pleaser, worried about what others thought. This new house, with its creaking floorboards and shadowy corners, only intensified the feeling. Exploring the basement felt like a monumental task, but she wanted to make this place feel hers. While she was down there, she noticed the odd shape of a wall panel. Bracing herself, she tugged on it. The panel gave way, revealing a small room filled with antique furniture draped in white sheets. A flush rushed up her neck.

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