self-conscious - Story 126877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From across the room, she saw her collection of hand-bound journals spread across a table at the craft fair. The work had been her private refuge, filled with personal reflections and sketches. Now, strangers were flipping through the pages, their fingers tracing the delicate stitching. Amelia felt a cold shiver run down her spine.

She felt a tightening in her chest, making it difficult to breathe. She wished she was invisible.

She moved closer, trying to blend in with the crowd, but the feeling of being observed persisted. She couldn't bring herself to go any closer.

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