self-conscious - Story 126768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air held the scent of damp leaves and distant wood smoke. Amelia pulled her scarf tighter, as though it could shield her from the truth. She was here, finally.

She had pictured this moment, imagined what she might feel. She had imagined it all. But the reality was worse. The raw, jagged end of the once vibrant tree. The absence.

She glanced to the side, suddenly aware of the way her hair framed her face. She smoothed it with her fingers. She cleared her throat. Why did she even bother coming?

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