The lump in Maya’s throat was insurmountable. She had poured her heart and soul into creating a magical forest-themed birthday for her five-year-old. Fairy lights, a handcrafted cake, a scavenger hunt – everything was perfect, or it *was*. Now, a handful of children milled around, their eyes drifting toward the loud, boisterous carnival next door, the one Emily had thrown. She felt the urge to hide, to disappear into the carefully constructed mushroom houses.

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