The park felt like a trap. Liam, the person she'd been texting every night for the past year was smiling at her from the other side of the park. It was him, wearing the same terrible Hawaiian shirt he’d teased her about endlessly.

Her breath hitched. She felt every inch of her skin prickle. She’d shared everything with him: her deepest fears, her most embarrassing moments. Now, she was standing here in the flesh, a walking embodiment of all her insecurities.

She pretended to study the distant clouds, anything to escape his gaze. The world began to spin a little. He knew far too much.

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