self-conscious - Story 126474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang as Amelia was in the middle of a very important Zoom meeting. She muted herself, her hands shaking as she went to the door. A man held a package aloft. "For Mr. Henderson?" he asked.

Her throat constricted. She was perpetually worried about what people thought of her; right now, she wished she had gotten dressed.

"There must be a mistake," she said, her voice barely a whisper. She looked at her reflection in the glass door and immediately regretted it.

The delivery person frowned. "Are you sure? It says…" He paused, reading the label. Amelia felt her pulse quicken.

"Yes, I'm sure," she interrupted, forcing a smile. "He doesn't live here anymore." She shut the door, feeling the heat crawl up her neck. Then she went back to her meeting, feeling a huge wave of relief. She had to get back to the presentation.

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