mortified - Story 90002 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d seen the photo online. A selfie, blurry and angled, yet undeniably him: Liam, and on his back, the entirety of her "Celestial Dance" mural, inked in perfect detail. Her face was burning. He was a cousin of a friend.

Panic clawed at her throat. This was supposed to be a private commission, a secret. Now, the world had access. Her fingers tightened around her phone, her knuckles turning white.

She scrolled back through their texts, searching for any hint of betrayal, any suggestion. Finding nothing, she felt a hollow ache. It was a perfect copy. How?

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:

`l`	0.406
`尴尬`	0.257
`C`	0.252
`worse`	0.245
`逃`	0.242

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.340
`了他`	-0.218
`他对`	-0.203
`ል`	-0.194
`楽し`	-0.193