"Seriously?" Sarah's voice cracked, a sound she loathed. The tow truck driver, a mountain of a man with a handlebar mustache, just gestured towards the cracked concrete. "Expired registration," he said, his voice a gravelly rumble. Sarah’s internal temperature had skyrocketed. She felt a flush spread from her neck up to her hairline. Her neighbor, Mr. Peterson, was at his window, already shaking his head and tutting. She wanted to scream. She wanted to dissolve into the bland, beige siding of her house.

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