self-conscious - Story 126845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laughter died in Amelia's throat as the doorbell chimed. She knew, with a certainty that settled in her stomach like a stone, who was on the other side. The party had been boisterous, a release after a difficult week, but now the joy had evaporated.

She quickly ran her hands over her dress, smoothing the wrinkles. Her palms felt clammy.

She opened the door to see Mr. Davies, his face set in a familiar frown. "I am so sorry," she began immediately, her voice hushed, as she tried to make herself small.

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