The memory of the charity bake sale was playing out again, this time at her wedding. Claire, her maid of honor, was giving a toast. Amelia squirmed, her stomach twisting into a painful knot. Claire was describing how Amelia had, apparently, dramatically fainted after realizing she'd forgotten to bake the cookies she'd promised. Amelia remembered feeling slightly lightheaded, but not collapsing! She could feel the stares of all the wedding guests. She wanted to disappear, vanish into thin air.

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