self-conscious - Story 126375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room, and Eliza felt like the furniture was mocking her. The house, a sprawling ranch, was her husband's dream, not hers. She much preferred the simplicity of their old apartment. She always felt clumsy and out of place, so she decided to clean. While dusting a bookcase, a particular volume seemed to jut out. When she tugged on it, the bookcase swung open, revealing a hidden room. Her breath hitched.

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