self-conscious - Story 126800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't mentioned it to his new girlfriend, Lisa. Not yet. They were coming over for dinner. He wanted everything to be perfect. He'd spent the whole day cleaning, cooking, trying to create the ideal atmosphere. He’d always felt the past weight on the house, and was dreading this evening.

When Lisa complimented the house, his throat tightened. He smiled. "It's…charming," he said. He felt his pulse quicken as he led her to the living room.

He found himself talking animatedly, pointing out every detail of the décor. He kept glancing at her, searching for any sign of recognition. He refilled her wine glass constantly, hoping the alcohol would smooth over any tension. He felt a desperate need for her to like him, for her to see him as normal.

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