A cold sweat slicked down Daniel's back as he stared at the online bank account summary. Sarah, his wife, the free spirit who claimed to live on a shoestring budget, possessed a secret fortune. A dizzying wave of nausea washed over him. He felt as though the very air had become thick and heavy.

He had just cooked dinner when Sarah sauntered in, humming. "Smells delicious, honey!" she exclaimed, throwing her bag on the table. He barely managed a weak smile. He pointed to the laptop screen, which still displayed the account balance.

Her jaw dropped. She turned pale, a hand flying to her mouth. "Oh, God," she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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