self-conscious - Story 126479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell's insistent ringing broke through Sarah's concentration. She was in the middle of a delicate painting, her hand steady. She carefully placed the brush down.

She took a deep breath. She didn't want to get up.

She opened the door to find a delivery man holding a small, brightly colored package. "For Miss Astrid Moon?"

Sarah felt a sudden chill, a wave of discomfort washing over her. She knew the name. She hated that name.

"She doesn't live here," Sarah said, her voice tight. She found herself clutching her own arms, as if to protect herself. Her throat felt dry. She had no idea how the other woman left the place.

The delivery man looked at her, his expression unreadable. "You sure?" He held out the package. Sarah shut the door, feeling the pressure.

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