self-conscious - Story 126460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You have their nose," her mother had once told her, playfully. Now, the words felt like a betrayal. The DNA test had revealed a different lineage. She no longer knew which features were truly hers. She sat in front of the mirror, studying her reflection.

She touched her cheekbones, wondering what they meant. Her eyes darted from one feature to another, trying to find some semblance of the truth. She felt a growing sense of detachment, like she was observing someone else's life, from a great distance.

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