self-conscious - Story 126483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Shouldn't you be over there with the others?" Martha's aunt, a small woman with a piercing gaze, had asked, her voice sharp as the chipped brick of the garden wall. Martha had mumbled something about needing air, retreating to the back corner of the yard. She leaned against the crumbling fence, the rough wood digging into her back.

The demolition crew was already at work, their machinery a monstrous ballet of destruction. The noise was deafening, a relentless assault on her senses. Martha pressed her palms against her ears, trying to shut it out.

Her eyes stung, though she wouldn't allow herself to cry in front of anyone. She felt utterly exposed, as if everyone could see the raw wound in her heart.

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