The weight of the diagnosis was crushing her. It wasn't the pain, it wasn't the fear. It was the public humiliation of the revelation. The doctor was showing her the records of someone with a STD. This was not her. She felt sick to her stomach.

She stammered as she tried to make sense of what she was hearing. The doctor continued to list the symptoms. She wanted to hide her face, to disappear, but instead she found herself staring back. She closed her eyes.

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