The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery. Amy felt a flush rise in her cheeks. Across the counter, her online confidant, "CookieMonster87," was arranging a display of croissants.

The realization hit her with the force of a physical blow. She'd shared all her baking disasters, the recipes that failed, the oven-burned experiments. Now, here she was, the source of all her culinary secrets.

The friendly smile of “CookieMonster87” was replaced by a sense of foreboding. She couldn’t make eye contact. Her safe, online world had collided with her messy, real-life self. She wanted to scream.

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