He paced the living room, agitated energy thrumming through him. His knuckles were white as he clenched his fists. The words swam in his brain, each one a sharp jab to his already bruised ego. He couldn't believe it. He’d poured his heart out to Sarah, confided his deepest fears and insecurities, and she’d...written a book about it? He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. He felt like he had been stripped naked and put on display.

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