self-conscious - Story 126674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement had been posted on the department’s website. Professor Moreau, gone. Sarah felt the blood drain from her face as she read the news. Her stomach churned.

She quickly closed the webpage, as if that could somehow negate reality. She imagined the professor, already gone. She pulled her hair back, tightly, attempting to control her thoughts.

She felt suddenly under scrutiny as she walked the halls. She saw people as judges, their eyes critiquing her every step. How could she possibly finish her degree without her guidance?

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