The first thing Chloe noticed was the absence. The second was the note taped to her front door: “Vehicle impounded. Call…” She crumpled the paper in her fist, her knuckles turning white. The humiliation was a physical thing, a cold, cloying weight pressing down on her chest. Her stomach lurched. Her boyfriend’s parents were due to arrive in less than an hour, and she’d promised to pick them up from the airport. Now, how was she supposed to face them? She wanted to evaporate.

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