mortified - Story 90007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gala was supposed to be a triumph. She stood, accepting accolades, feeling the weight of the situation grow. The applause, the bright lights, the forced smiles – all felt unreal. Then, a voice, a shout.

"Hey! You! The artist! I have your work!"

He was a hulking figure, arms crossed. And her large, dramatic painting, the one that had taken her months to complete, was plastered across his entire back. His voice was boisterous, happy. Her stomach lurched.

She needed air, and immediately.

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