"So, how'd you do?" Sarah's friend beamed, the A on her paper radiating triumph. The question, delivered with innocent curiosity, felt like a slap in the face. Sarah's face flushed crimson. She mumbled something unintelligible, quickly shoving her exam, the one with the disappointing C+, deep into her backpack. She felt a throbbing ache behind her temples, and her palms were slick with sweat. She had to get away.

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