The album was heavy in her hands. She had always known her uncle was a bit of a rogue, a charming man who lived life on his own terms. But this was different. The photos showed her uncle not just flirting, but living a wild, secret life.

Her breath caught in her throat. She had always been fascinated by him, drawn to his charisma. Now, a cold sense of anxiety settled in her stomach. The stories he told her, the tales of adventure, suddenly felt tainted. She felt a growing sense of discomfort, a tightening in her chest.

She quickly closed the album and placed it back in its box.

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