self-conscious - Story 126838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator seemed to amplify the silence in the kitchen. She felt a flush creep up her neck as she stared at the contents of the safe. She’d always trusted Robert, believed their marriage was built on honesty. Now, she questioned everything.

He’d always claimed they were just getting by. That was the narrative. The truth, hidden in a small, metal box, told a different story. The sheer volume of money was staggering. She closed the safe door, the click echoing in the stillness.

She heard him come in from the garage. She quickly turned away from the safe, grabbing a glass of water. "Hey," he said, smiling, but her heart was still thumping with unrest.

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