self-conscious - Story 126580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself constantly checking his reflection in the shop windows as he walked. He was running late, which made it worse. He spotted her, near the bakery, and his breath hitched. He walked up to her, feeling a mix of elation and dread. "Hey, Lisa. It's Dan."

Lisa turned, her expression immediately blank. She looked him up and down, then back again. "Dan?" she asked. "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

He felt the weight of the world settle on his shoulders. He stammered, "We used to collect baseball cards. We were… best friends. Remember?" His voice was almost lost in the noise of the street.

She shook her head. “I'm sorry, I don't remember you at all." He felt a crushing wave of despair.

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