self-conscious - Story 126835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast dancing shadows on the walls of the dining room. The romantic dinner, intended to be a surprise for her anniversary, suddenly felt tainted. She glanced across the table at David, who was talking animatedly about his day. His usually charming smile felt…off.

Earlier, while tidying his study, she'd stumbled upon a safety deposit box key. She couldn't help herself. She went to the bank. Inside the box was a collection of expensive jewelry, none of which she recognized. The weight of the secret settled on her chest, a physical burden. She took a deep breath, trying to look comfortable, but she didn’t feel it.

“Did you get anything fun done today?” she asked, her voice sounding unnaturally high-pitched. He laughed.

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