self-conscious - Story 126508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the Labrador, Charlie, happily digging in her flowerbeds sent a wave of frustration through Eleanor. She ran a hand through her hair, pushing it behind her ears, suddenly acutely aware of how messy it was.

She hated how the neighbor, Mr. Henderson, seemed to constantly be watching her. She imagined him peering over the fence, judging her.

She shuffled out the back door, clutching a trowel, trying to look like she was enjoying her day. She felt a familiar weight on her chest. "Mr. Henderson," she called. "Could you maybe...?"

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