The waiting room was strangely noisy. Babies were crying, phones were ringing, and people were chatting. Mark was sitting there, when his name was called. After getting his name checked, he followed the nurse into a room. The doctor was waiting for him, and they sat down. The doctor started to explain his test results, but Mark tuned out and his mind raced.

The doctor was trying to explain the results of his colonoscopy. However, he had never had a colonoscopy. He felt a deep flush on his face as he realized there had been a mistake.

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