self-conscious - Story 126753 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope, sealed with a childish heart sticker, sat on the mantelpiece, mocking her. It had been decades, yet the humiliation still stung. The letter was from her childhood best friend, Sarah, who had, in a moment of juvenile cruelty, spread a damaging rumor about her. She felt the familiar heat in her cheeks as she thought of it. She glanced down at her reflection in the dark window pane, scrutinizing every line and flaw. Her hands shook as she reached for the letter, the paper crackling like a hateful echo.

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