self-conscious - Story 126480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window as Liam heard the tap on the door. He was wearing his oldest, most comfortable clothes. He didn't bother to check the peephole. He knew.

"Package for Mr. Arthur Finch?" The delivery man's voice was bright.

Liam felt a familiar wave of unease. He felt awful, as if he was somehow intruding.

"He doesn't live here," Liam replied, feeling his face flush. He wished he'd showered. He wished he'd shaved.

The delivery man frowned. "Are you absolutely positive? It's addressed…" He trailed off, looking at the box. Liam felt the sting of a blush.

"Yes," Liam said, cutting him off, and closed the door. He slumped against it. The package was still there. He briefly considered leaving it there until the delivery person returned. He quickly pushed the thought aside. He felt, suddenly, tired and defeated.

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