The overhead light cast long, dancing shadows across the cluttered attic. John felt a strange sense of unease, a tightening in his stomach. He hadn't expected to find *this*. He could feel the blood rushing to his face.

A collection of handwritten journals lay open on a small, rickety table. He couldn’t resist the pull; He picked one up, his hand shaking. The diary was filled with observations, secrets, and a growing sense of paranoia that resonated in a way that he hated to find relatable.

He slammed the journal shut. He felt a deep, profound sense of discomfort. He didn't want to know these things. He wanted to erase the very existence of these journals. He felt like his own private life was being invaded. He quickly left the attic, feeling like he'd violated some unwritten law.

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