self-conscious - Story 126453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family photo album lay open on the coffee table. Sarah stared at it, a wave of heat washing over her. She knew the faces by heart, the smiles, the familiar quirks. But now she saw them differently. The DNA results had shown she was not related to anyone in the photos.

She closed the album with a snap, feeling a sudden chill. It had been like this her whole life, this nagging sense of otherness. She used to blame her shyness. Now, she wondered if it was something more fundamental. She felt like an imposter.

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