self-conscious - Story 126295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangement was too tall. Amelia kept rearranging the petals, trying to find the perfect balance. She'd spent the entire afternoon decorating, meticulously placing each streamer and balloon. She wanted everything to be just right, to present a perfect image. The doorbell was supposed to ring in an hour. Then, a call. "Hey, you know... things have changed." Her fingers clenched. The flowers seemed to droop. She found herself fiddling with the fringe of the tablecloth.

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