self-conscious - Story 126841 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thumping bass had faded, but Sarah still felt the vibrations in her chest. A sharp rap on the door echoed through the tiny apartment. Her hand flew to her messy bun, fingers smoothing the flyaways. She took a deep breath, trying to slow her racing heart.

“Coming!” she called, her voice a little too high. She peered through the peephole. Mrs. Gable, her neighbor, stood with a pinched expression.

Opening the door, Sarah immediately felt the urge to apologize. "Oh, hi! I didn't realize it was so loud. I… I'm so sorry." She avoided Mrs. Gable’s gaze, focusing on a crack in the hallway floorboards. The woman’s lips were pressed into a thin line, and it was agonizing.

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