self-conscious - Story 126650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office suddenly felt thin and brittle, like the paper of the memo that landed on her desk this morning. The word "restructuring" was printed on the top.

Her stomach churned. She was keenly aware of the way her chair squeaked as she shifted, the tap-tap-tap of her fingers on the desk. She could feel every detail of her clothing on her skin. She found herself trying to make herself smaller, to take up less space.

She wished she was invisible.

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