mortified - Story 90038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of fresh ink and paper in the bookshop did nothing to soothe David's mounting agitation. He'd known this day would come, but the reality felt far worse than the abstract dread he'd carried. "David Carter: The Unvarnished Truth." The title felt like an accusation.

He scanned the faces of the other customers, imagining their thoughts. He felt exposed, stripped bare. His carefully constructed life was about to be laid bare for all to see.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to shatter the glass display case showcasing the book. He fled the store, shoulders hunched, feeling like he was being watched.

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