He gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. Across from him, Emily was cheerfully retelling the story of their disastrous camping trip. She described the downpour, the soggy marshmallows, and his utter inability to assemble the tent. His memory was different. He recalled being a capable outdoorsman, patiently guiding her through the process. He swallowed hard, a lump forming in his throat. He looked out the window, avoiding her gaze, wishing he could rewind time, or at least the conversation.

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