self-conscious - Story 126278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new uniform felt itchy. Robert adjusted his collar, tugging it away from his neck. He was in the shipping and receiving department now, a world away from the office administration role he had previously held. The physical demands of the job were challenging, and the constant exposure to the hustle and bustle of the warehouse seemed intimidating.

He watched the experienced staff, their movements efficient, their knowledge encyclopedic. He fumbled with the packages, his coordination clumsy. He was acutely aware of his inexperience. He kept his head down, hoping he wouldn’t make a mistake, hoping he wouldn't hold anyone back.

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