Agnes nearly choked on her tea when she saw the headline: "Grandma Millie's Secret Spice Cake Takes the Nation by Storm!" Millie wasn't even her grandmother. It was *her* recipe. She slammed the newspaper down, her cheeks flaming. Her hands trembled as she reached for the phone, the receiver slick with sweat. Should she call her sister, the culprit? Demand an explanation? Or just… pretend she hadn't seen it? The feeling in her stomach was akin to being punched.

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