“Well, this is awkward,” Michael muttered, his voice barely a whisper. He’d bumped into a former lover, a man she hadn't seen in years. And there, on the man's calf, was her signature abstract design.

The man’s eyes widened in recognition. His hand flew to his leg as if he was ashamed. A flush crept up Michael’s neck. A memory, long suppressed, surfaced of a drunken night, an impulsive decision.

She cleared her throat, feeling the sting of unshed tears. This was not how she wanted to reunite.

Emotion: mortified

Cluster: Embarrassment
PC1 (Valence): -1.36 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.79

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion mortified. 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 mortified stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the mortified emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the mortified vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.406
尴尬0.257
C0.252
worse0.245
0.242
Suppressed:
own-0.340
了他-0.218
他对-0.203
-0.194
楽し-0.193