"Another one?" Daniel said aloud, staring at the package. He'd lost count of how many times this had happened. This time, it was a subscription box, promising exotic cheeses. The previous tenant, a woman named Emily, must have loved her cheese.

He just wished it would stop. He didn't want Emily's cheese. He certainly didn't want to get involved in this. He considered just leaving it on the porch, but the thought of the delivery person seeing it again filled him with chagrin.

He sighed, his shoulders slumping. He grabbed a pen and wrote "Return to Sender" on the box before placing it outside, hoping it would be the last.

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