self-conscious - Story 126639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun, casting long shadows across the living room, illuminated a small, leather-bound journal. Maria, going through her grandmother’s belongings, opened it to find a letter carefully tucked inside. It was written in her grandmother's delicate hand. She felt a tightening in her chest.

The letter was addressed to her deceased husband, detailing her fears about the future. The words expressed the vulnerability that she felt. Maria had always seen her grandmother as fearless, the rock of the family. The sight of such open weakness sent a shudder through her.

She reread the letter, the words echoing the weight of her grandmother’s unspoken worries. Maria felt exposed, as if she had inadvertently uncovered a secret. She closed the journal and placed it back on the shelf, unwilling to look at the letter again.

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