He picked at the tablecloth, his appetite completely gone. His love for competitive cheese rolling had been a source of quiet enjoyment. But then his son, Ethan, started competing, and his enjoyment evaporated. Ethan had not only embraced the sport but also started constructing his own cheese wheels, incorporating live mice into the process. The annual cheese rolling competition was in full swing, and Ethan's entry was the subject of much bewildered discussion. He felt as if everyone was staring at him. He wanted to go home.

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