He nearly choked on his coffee. Mr. Henderson, his neighbor, the quiet, unassuming man who always wore the same slightly faded corduroys, had just pulled up in a vintage Aston Martin. A *real* Aston Martin. David felt a flush creep up his neck.

He'd spent the last month subtly judging Mr. Henderson's beat-up sedan. “Probably doesn’t even have air conditioning,” he’d scoffed to his wife, gesturing with a dismissive hand. Now, he felt the need to hide behind the curtains.

He considered pretending he hadn’t seen anything. Pretending he was engrossed in his phone. The garage door began to rumble open. He had to think of something quick.

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