“Camp Hemlock? No way!” Kevin yelped, slapping his knee. "I was there too!" He turned to Maria, his eyes alight with recognition.

Maria, however, felt her smile waver. The sudden burst of familiarity felt… unsettling. She shifted her weight, suddenly aware of the way her new dress felt a bit too tight. She hated the memories camp brought up.

She offered a weak smile. “Oh, really?” She kept her voice neutral, hoping to keep the conversation short. She wasn't sure she wanted to revisit those memories.

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:
S0.307
C0.298
ness0.273
尴尬0.263
😶0.242
Suppressed:
que-0.399
de-0.266
triumphant-0.266
আনন্দের-0.247
ايا-0.238