The bustling auction house buzzed with nervous energy. The fate of their father's collection of classic cars was to be revealed. “And for Beatrice,” the auctioneer boomed, handing her a small, velvet-lined box. She’d always loved the cars, but her brother, Charles, had always been obsessed. His inheritance? The keys to a vintage Aston Martin. She clutched the box, her knuckles white. The audience watched her. It felt like they were laughing at her. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

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