self-conscious - Story 126400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house was filled with shadows and dust. Ethan, tasked with cleaning out his late grandfather’s library, felt a creeping sense of dread. Each item held a memory, and his presence felt like an intrusion. He tugged at a leather-bound book, and a folded piece of parchment fell out. He quickly scanned the room, as though worried someone would see him. He paused, the letter trembling in his hands. The weight of the past, and the future, suddenly felt crushing.

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