self-conscious - Story 126658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the office seemed to be on overdrive, chilling Grace to the bone. She tugged at the collar of her blouse, feeling constricted. She had sent a carefully worded email to her boss about a project deadline. A follow-up text to her sister, lamenting how the whole thing was over her head, had been sent to the boss instead. She could picture him, head tilted, reading her candid thoughts. She imagined her career spiraling downwards. She wanted to disappear.

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