He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white. The annual car show was a highlight of his year. Except now, thanks to his son, it was a nightmare. He'd poured his heart and soul into restoring his vintage Mustang, but now his son, a skateboarding enthusiast, had 'customized' it with graffiti art. The crowd, a mix of car fanatics and curious onlookers, stared at the car. He could feel his face burning as he listened to his son, with evident pride, explain how the artwork represented "the freedom of the open road." He fought the urge to drive away immediately.

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