self-conscious - Story 126756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on her screen, a bright, unwelcome intrusion. It was from her ex-boyfriend, Daniel, who had abruptly ended their relationship years before, leaving her reeling. Her heart pounded as she opened it. The words, filled with regret, seemed to leap off the screen. She found herself checking her appearance in the reflection of her monitor, smoothing her hair, wishing she had put on some makeup. She felt suddenly and intensely vulnerable, as if the past had reached out and grabbed her.

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