self-conscious - Story 126719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the apartment was suffocating. She felt like everyone knew. She hated the idea of the neighbors gossiping, judging her. She was usually so strong, so independent. Now she felt brittle, like she would shatter with the slightest touch. She spent the entire morning cleaning, scrubbing surfaces until they gleamed.

She hated the way she was so emotional.

She stared out the window, watching the passersby.

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