self-conscious - Story 126965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Open a Bakery”. The words blurred slightly as Amelia blinked. The list, nestled in the bottom drawer of David’s desk, felt like a secret weapon. The idea of him, making beautiful cakes, creating a business…it made her feel small, almost insignificant.

She knew she wasn’t the most ambitious person. She enjoyed her quiet life, her routine. David was always pushing her to pursue her own goals, but she had never felt inclined to. Now, seeing this revealed ambition made her wonder if she was holding him back.

She felt a sudden, urgent need to tidy up, to make sure everything was in its place. She quickly shut the drawer and went to the kitchen.

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