The box was small, unremarkable, but the sight of it sent a jolt of anxiety through her. She’d found it while clearing out a storage unit. The label was faded, but the writing was hers. "To My Future Husband!" it read.

She set it on the ground. She couldn’t remember the contents, but the implication was enough. She hesitantly opened the lid. Inside, she found a love letter she had written to her then-boyfriend, which was now filled with embarrassing details.

She quickly dropped the box. She turned and fled the storage unit, a feeling of burning heat rising in her face.

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