Her sketches, private and filled with raw emotion, now filled the glossy pages of the art magazine. Her innermost thoughts, the source of her pain, were now on display for anyone to peruse.

She flipped through the magazine, her hands shaking. Each turn of the page was like a fresh stab wound. The editor's commentary, dissecting her work, felt like a personal attack. She didn’t want to be *understood* in this way. She just wanted to hide.

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