mortified - Story 90014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the announcement that shattered the quiet Saturday afternoon. Their Uncle Frank, the staunch, conservative Republican, was embracing Islam. Dinner had gone on for all of 10 minutes before he proudly announced it. His daughter, Jessica, across from her, was staring at her plate as if it held the secrets of the universe. Mark’s father had a vein throbbing in his temple.

Mark felt the blood drain from his face. The air crackled with unspoken accusations. He wanted to vanish.

His father started to speak, his voice tight. Mark cut him off. He just needed to go.

He quickly retreated to his room, locking the door behind him.

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