self-conscious - Story 126746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is just great,” I muttered, glancing at my reflection in the hallway mirror. My neighbor, Mr. Harrison's massive willow was now spread across my lawn. My perfectly organized garden looked like a disaster zone.

I immediately wanted to disappear. The damage to the fence was extensive, which I knew would bother Mr. Harrison, a man who took pride in his property. I felt a surge of embarrassment as I imagined his reaction.

I quickly changed my clothes, straightening my posture. I tried to calm the rapid beat of my heart, taking a deep breath before opening the door.

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