self-conscious - Story 126785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing felt like an ambush. She’d been enjoying a rare moment of peace, sipping tea, when it arrived, uninvited. The website displayed the address in large, bold letters. Her old address. She recoiled, the tea going cold in her hands.

The photographs showed a renovated interior. She remembered the faded floral wallpaper, the chipped paint. She imagined the new owners, judging her family’s outdated tastes. She suddenly felt a pressing urge to explain, to apologize, for something she couldn't even name. She pulled her sweater tighter around herself.

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