The radio blared from the open car window. He was cruising down the highway, trying to unwind after a tough day. Then, the familiar melody. His song, “Whispers in the Wind,” was being played. But the singer's voice... It was wrong. Flat. Soul-less.

He slammed on the brakes, pulling over to the side of the road. His face contorted. He shut his eyes, took a deep breath, and then slammed his fist on the steering wheel. The radio's smug rendition of his song felt like a personal attack. He was a laughing stock.

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