The squeak of the gate alerted me. My heart hammered against my ribs as I peered through the blinds. There it was again, the fluffy menace, happily chasing butterflies through my freshly seeded lawn.

My cheeks felt like they were on fire.

This was the day I had decided to host a garden party. Guests, all invited, were coming in an hour.

I sank onto the sofa, the thought of facing my elegant friends utterly paralyzing.

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