self-conscious - Story 126669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal walls of the elevator seemed to close in on him. Arthur shifted his weight from foot to foot, feeling awkward and clumsy. His boss, Mrs. Gable, was standing across from him, and he felt a desperate need to impress her.

He tried to keep his back straight, to project an air of confidence, but every gesture felt forced. He wished he had worn a different tie. He could feel sweat gathering on his brow, and his palms felt clammy.

He wanted to contribute to the conversation, but his mind went blank. He was afraid of saying the wrong thing, of appearing foolish. He’d never felt so out of place.

He looked for any way to leave this place.

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