self-conscious - Story 126915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hey, there." It was Carol, the perky, popular woman from next door. She was standing at the edge of the fence, a small smile on her face. Her perfect posture made Lily feel awkward.

Lily, still in her worn gardening clothes, felt a wave of discomfort wash over her. She knew what was coming. Carol had always seemed so… together.

Carol tilted her head, her gaze drifting towards the sprawling maple tree that towered over both their yards. "I was wondering... the tree... it's dropping a lot of leaves on my deck."

Lily clutched her muddy hands together, avoiding eye contact. She knew her own deck wasn’t exactly in top shape. “Yeah,” she said, her voice barely a whisper. "I’m, uh, sorry."

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