self-conscious - Story 126506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Not again," Amelia muttered, her stomach clenching. The Great Dane, Zeus, was currently using her carefully watered lawn as his personal racetrack.

She grabbed the worn gardening gloves, pulling them on with unnecessary force. She felt exposed in her slightly stained gardening overalls, the ones she felt safe wearing.

She hated the way her face flushed when she felt even slightly put on the spot. She marched toward the fence, determined to say something. The words caught in her throat.

"Excuse me?" she asked tentatively, feeling the heat rise in her 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