self-conscious - Story 126503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar sound of the gate latch clicking sent a jolt of panic through Maya. She was just about to start her morning jog. She ducked behind the towering azalea bush, the leaves scratching against her exposed arms. A chihuahua, Mr. Snuggles, belonged to the house next door.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the quiet morning. She peeked out from behind the bush, catching sight of the tiny dog prancing along her back patio, looking for something to eat.

She held her breath, hoping he wouldn't notice her. The crisp morning air suddenly felt suffocating. Why did this always happen when she was outside?

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