self-conscious - Story 126972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Arthur. He stood rigid, arms crossed, as Mrs. Gable, a woman of relentless cheerfulness, gestured towards his meticulously kept rose bushes. He felt a flush crawl up his neck.

"Just a small patch, dear," she chirped, her voice dripping with kindness. "For some herbs. Nothing that will disrupt your... arrangements." His gaze flicked to the manicured hedges, the perfectly symmetrical flowerbeds, everything that defined his world.

He cleared his throat. "Of course, Mrs. Gable." He tried to sound casual, but the words felt brittle. He pictured the chaos she would bring, the accidental weeds, the untidy profusion. He wondered if he could politely suggest a different area, a less... exposed one.

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