A wave of dizziness washed over her. The acquisition announcement, delivered during the mandatory all-hands call, was a complete shock. She’d spent the last five years building her career here, working her way up from intern to team lead.

She felt a stinging sensation behind her eyes. Tears threatened to spill, but she fought them back, clenching her jaw. She didn't want anyone to see her this way.

She grabbed her phone and swiftly exited the call. She needed to be alone. She went to the roof, the wind whipping through her hair, and leaned over the railing, staring blankly at the street below.

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