It hit Daniel as he was presenting a project in front of his class. The notification popped up on his smartwatch, the tiny screen a beacon of unwanted information. The color drained from his face. His voice, usually confident and clear, cracked, faltering mid-sentence. He stumbled over his words, his meticulously prepared presentation falling apart. His classmates stared, the room suddenly a spotlight. He abruptly stopped, stammering an apology, and sat down, his face burning.

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