self-conscious - Story 126960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The time capsule sat, exposed, in the middle of Amelia’s small backyard. She hadn't a clue how it got there. She’d been enjoying a rare day off, weeding her garden, when her trowel struck metal.

She pried the lid open, and a wave of memories flooded back. A small stuffed animal, a childhood drawing, and a faded photograph. Her heart raced.

She ran her hand over her face, she didn't want anyone to see these things. A feeling of exposure washed over her, making her fidget. She rapidly closed the box and shoved it back into the hole, covering it with dirt, wanting it gone.

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