He didn’t know how he was going to explain this to the team. Mark stared at the email, the subject line a cruel joke: “Project Phoenix - Our Shared Vision?” His heart hammered against his ribs. The attached proposal from the competing firm… it was the same research, the same strategies, even the same quirky, off-beat presentation style. He felt a deep, profound sense of sinking. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it until it stood up in wild spikes.

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