The lilies. Again. Another delivery of lilies. This was the third week in a row. Sarah stared at the arrangement, her face pale. She’d received a different arrangement each week. A different flower each time. Still no card.

The first week, she’d been slightly amused. The second week, she was mildly irritated. Now, a deep sense of unease settled in her stomach. It felt like stalking, subtle and unsettling.

She called the florist, for the third time. They could offer no clues, just sympathy. She began to feel isolated, trapped within her own apartment. She glanced at the lilies. They were now a symbol of her predicament, a constant reminder of the unseen… attention.

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