self-conscious - Story 126575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his tie loosen on its own, sliding down his shirt with a life of its own. The office felt cold, the fluorescent lights harsh. He saw her, coming down the hall, and his heart leaped. He straightened up, trying to appear nonchalant. "Hey, Chloe! It's Ben."

Chloe paused, her brow furrowing slightly. She looked him over carefully. "Ben?" she replied, her tone neutral. "I don't believe I know a Ben."

He felt the color drain from his face. He felt his face flush. He swallowed hard. "We used to spend every summer at the lake. Remember the time we capsized the boat?" His voice cracked.

She gave a small shake of her head. "I'm afraid not. I don't recall any of that." He felt utterly exposed, as if the walls of the office were closing in on him.

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