self-conscious - Story 126670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency phone felt like the only point of connection in this metal prison. Jessica bit her lip, her eyes darting between her coworker, Ben, and the control panel. He was so handsome, and she felt like a complete klutz.

She straightened her shoulders, trying to appear nonchalant, but every movement felt strained and unnatural. She worried about every word.

She could feel the blood rushing to her face, a warm flush that made her even more uncomfortable. She wondered if he noticed her nervous habit of constantly adjusting her bracelet. She wanted to vanish.

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