“Eat at a Michelin-Starred Restaurant.” "Volunteer at an Animal Shelter.” "Learn to Speak Italian." The list, found crumpled in the pocket of his favorite jacket, felt heavy in her hands. Then came the item that took her breath away: "Have a One-Night Stand." She could barely believe her eyes.

Her jaw dropped. He had always seemed so… well, *them*. Now she felt a cold dread settle in her stomach, a feeling of being utterly lost. The room began to spin. She pressed her hand against the wall, trying to steady herself. Her vision swam.

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