mortified - Story 90019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her sister, Jessica, had always been a bit of a free spirit, but this was on another level. Now a devotee of a new-age spiritual guru, Jessica started telling everyone about her new beliefs. The air crackled with a strange combination of amusement and tension. Each person in the living room now had a face that showed some form of concern or distress.

Her father’s knuckles were white as he gripped his coffee cup.

She abruptly left the room, the sound of her sister’s voice following her like a bad dream. She didn't want to hear another word.

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