The package was small, rectangular, and utterly innocuous. It was addressed to “Mr. Henderson,” the man who'd lived in the apartment before. John, the current tenant, picked it up, expecting it to be junk mail.

He tore it open, revealing a thick, leather-bound journal. He flipped through the pages. The handwriting was neat, meticulous, filled with intimate thoughts and daily observations. A wave of profound embarrassment washed over him.

He slammed the journal shut, suddenly desperate to get rid of it. He felt like he'd just stumbled into someone's most private thoughts. He quickly wrapped it back up and started to search for Mr. Henderson's number online.

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