self-conscious - Story 126448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burnt popcorn hung in the air. As Chloe entered the shared dorm room, the first thing she noticed was her journal was on the floor next to her roommate's, Sarah's, bed. She looked at Sarah, but she was watching TV, lost in a sitcom. Chloe’s hands clenched into fists.

She started to feel a prickling sensation on her skin, and she was acutely aware of every gesture she made. She slowly bent down, retrieving the journal. She tried to appear nonchalant, but her movements felt stiff, clumsy.

"Did you… see my journal?" she asked, her voice tight.

Sarah shrugged. "Yeah. It was on the floor."

Chloe bit her lip and rushed off to the bathroom.

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