self-conscious - Story 126883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in Amelia’s hands made it difficult to hold the grocery bags. She stumbled, nearly dropping them as she crossed the street. Across from her, Mrs. Rodriguez, her neighbour, stepped out of a limousine. The woman's face was calm, her every movement radiating ease.

Amelia’s hands trembled more, and she felt a wave of heat wash over her. She knew Mrs. Rodriguez had inherited a vast fortune.

The contents of her shopping bags suddenly seemed pathetic – instant noodles and generic cereal. She quickly looked down, and hurried past the imposing vehicle.

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