The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to be closing in. "Camp Sunshine?" Liam exclaimed, his eyes widening. Olivia felt a knot tighten in her stomach. She stared at the computer screen, her face burning.

She fumbled with her phone, pretending to check for messages. Liam was recounting stories of the camp’s annual talent show. She could feel the color draining from her face, her hands growing clammy.

"Weren’t you the one who… uh… forgot the words to the song?" Liam asked, trying to contain a laugh. Olivia abruptly stood up and said she was going for a walk to clear her head and quickly exited the office.

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