self-conscious - Story 126764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gate creaked as Eliza entered the garden. It was always a gamble returning here. She picked at the hem of her jacket, her fingers tracing the threadbare material.

She knew what she would find. But the reality was still a shock. A jagged, ugly stump, where her little willow had once stood. A hot flush crept up her neck, reaching her ears.

She mumbled a soft, "Oh." The words felt inadequate, a pathetic offering. She took a step back, her gaze locked on the place where the tree had been, and felt oddly exposed.

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