Her new assistant had a large tattoo on his arm, a direct copy of one of her most popular pieces. She hadn't noticed it during the interview, too preoccupied with his portfolio. Now, she could barely look at him.

His movements seemed clumsy, exaggerated. She found herself avoiding his gaze, every interaction tinged with a strange discomfort. She found herself questioning everything.

She cleared her throat. “Can you…” she began, then paused. The words wouldn’t come.

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