The letter was in a well-worn copy of *Wuthering Heights*. She read a line, then another, and then… she stopped. Her face burned. The letter was an accusation.

She couldn’t meet anyone’s gaze. She felt a terrible lurch in her stomach.

She slammed the book shut, her cheeks blazing. She wished she could rewind time. She walked as fast as she could to the register to pay for the book, and then she was gone.

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