He wanted to disappear. He clutched the phone, the screen reflecting his own horrified expression. The message, meant for his secret lover, read: “Can’t wait to see you tonight. Sneaking out after dinner.” The recipient? His wife.

His face crumbled. He felt the blood drain from his head. He gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, needing to steady himself. His entire life was about to implode.

He braced himself for the inevitable call, the fury, the questions. His vision swam.

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