“Mr. Finch, I just wanted to say…” the former student began, handing him a brightly wrapped package. Mr. Finch's stomach lurched. The boy had been expelled for academic dishonesty, caught cheating on a final exam. He stared at the gift, picturing the scenario; his own name on a card, a simple gesture. Was it a joke? A challenge? A subtle act of defiance? He cleared his throat, unable to meet the student's eye. "That's very kind," he croaked, feeling a chill crawl up his spine.

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