self-conscious - Story 126475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Package for… Mr. Silas Thorne," the mail carrier called. Finn, who had just stepped out onto the porch, froze. He knew, he just *knew*, that this would happen. He was already having a bad day, and this was just the cherry on top.

He shuffled forward, pulling his oversized hoodie tighter. He hadn't shaved, and his hair was a mess.

"Wrong address," he mumbled, avoiding eye contact. He just wanted to disappear. He tried to think of what to say.

The mail carrier, a young woman, looked at him with an expression of mild curiosity. "Are you sure? It's definitely this address."

Finn mumbled something unintelligible, quickly turning and retreating back into the house, slamming the door. He slumped against it, his stomach churning with frustration. He felt the sting of a flush on his cheeks.

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