The mention of Camp Sunny Meadows, from across the cubicle walls, was like a physical jolt. He froze, his hands still hovering over his keyboard. It was the same camp where his first crush had rejected him.

He inhaled sharply, trying to control the sudden, unwelcome surge of emotion. He pretended to concentrate, focusing his gaze intently on his computer screen.

He didn't want to engage, didn't want to be reminded of the time he had been so vulnerable.

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