The spreadsheet shimmered, a hateful, pixelated glare in the fluorescent light. Amelia scrolled, her breath catching in her throat with each number. There it was: Liam’s salary. Higher. Significantly higher. She felt a heat creep up her neck, a blush she knew was spreading across her face. She closed the document, her hands trembling. How could this be? She'd trained him! She'd mentored him. A wave of nausea hit her, and she had to lean back in her chair.

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