The air conditioning seemed to have failed. At least, that's what David wanted to believe as rivulets of sweat started to form on his brow. "Camp Clearwater?" Kevin had asked, a curious tilt to his head. David wished he could evaporate.

He busied himself with the stapler, over-stapling the corner of a document. He hadn't seen Kevin in months. He hoped it would stay that way. He considered feigning a sudden illness and making a hasty exit, but Kevin was already talking about the time David had accidentally set fire to the arts and crafts tent.

"You were always so… enthusiastic," Kevin said, his tone one of amused recollection. David forced a chuckle, hoping it sounded convincing. His palms began to sweat.

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