mortified - Story 90034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a sudden chill, despite the warm spring air. The book, tucked innocuously on a library shelf, was hers. Or, at least, it *claimed* to be. The cover, depicting a caricature of her, sent a wave of nausea through her. "Clara's Ascent: From Laundromat to Legend." The words felt vulgar, cheap.

She grabbed the book, her knuckles white. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to hide it, to burn it, to make it all go away. People were starting to stare.

She retreated to a dimly lit corner, her pulse racing. This wasn't supposed to happen. Her life was quiet. Ordinary. Now, it was… public.

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