self-conscious - Story 126487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old key, cold and heavy in Emily’s hand, felt like a burden. She kept her back turned from the demolition site. She hadn’t expected to feel so much pressure on her. Everyone was staring. She could feel it.

She didn't want to cry, not here, not now, in front of everyone. She clutched the key tighter, her knuckles white.

She longed to return to her car.

She wanted to be alone. She felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee.

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