She was at the grocery store. The woman in line in front of her, the one with the simple haircut and the sensible cardigan, was paying with a platinum card. As she walked away, a chauffeur opened the door to her gleaming, black Rolls Royce.

Sarah nearly dropped her basket of groceries. She'd always assumed Mrs. Davies was a widow, scraping by on a fixed income. She’d even felt a pang of pity for her.

She had to remind herself to breathe, the air suddenly thick in her throat. She had spoken ill of Mrs. Davies many times. She had criticized her "boring" lifestyle.

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