The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like a suffocating presence. "Camp Harmony?" Leo asked. He seemed genuinely excited. Chloe wanted to scream.

She pretended to be engrossed in the office's weekly newsletter, her eyes scanning the print as if it held the secrets of the universe. The memories began to flood back: awkward dances, childish pranks, and a certain incident involving a runaway canoe.

"You were on the Red team, weren't you?" Leo inquired, his voice laced with amusement. Chloe's carefully constructed facade shattered. She mumbled something about a sudden deadline and abruptly returned to her desk, burying herself under a mountain of paperwork.

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