The smell of her lemon curd – *her* perfectly balanced lemon curd – hit her the moment she walked into the bakery. "Lucy's Luscious Lemon Treats," the sign proclaimed. A cold dread washed over her, chilling her to the bone. She wanted to scream, to grab the nearest rolling pin and… she didn't know what. She just felt utterly and completely… flattened. She watched as a customer bought a slice, a blissful smile on their face. She turned and fled, nearly tripping over a display of perfectly iced cupcakes.

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