The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock him. Across the room, Leo was enthusiastically sharing his version of their disastrous attempt at painting class. He claimed she'd produced a Jackson Pollock-esque disaster while he'd created a masterpiece. She remembered focusing, feeling a true connection with her canvas. Leo's version sounded quite the opposite. She felt a flush spread across her chest, a stinging sensation she wished she could control. She picked at a loose thread on her sleeve.

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