The annual summer lake trip was never the same after this. Their Aunt Martha had announced she was converting to Rastafarianism. The change from her buttoned-up demeanor to her new self was drastic. Her nieces and nephews stared at her in stunned silence. The brightly coloured clothing and dreadlocks caused tension.

Her younger brother’s expression was an incredible study.

She excused herself, pretending to check on the kids. The joy of the water was now gone.

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