mortified - Story 90033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 2:00 a.m. a cold slap to the face. The subject line: "Advance Review Copy - Ethan Blackwood: The Making Of A Myth." He nearly choked on his coffee. His hands were shaking so hard he could barely click on the attachment. He scrolled through the PDF, each sentence a blow.

He slammed his laptop shut, then slowly opened it again. He paced his apartment, muttering under his breath. He hated that the book got his past completely wrong. He hated that it got him right.

He threw himself onto his couch, face buried in a throw pillow. He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes. He wished he could go back to sleep and that this was all a nightmare.

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