mortified - Story 90039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over Evelyn. The book was a mirror, reflecting a life she barely recognized. The photo on the cover… her, younger, smiling, and so full of hope. The irony nearly choked her. "Evelyn's Echo: The Search for Peace." A life *she* wasn't even at peace with.

The words blurred before her eyes, each sentence a stab. Private moments, intimate details, all splashed across the page. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a tightening that made it difficult to breathe. She pushed the book away, her hand trembling.

She found herself at the window, staring out at the world. She didn't want to be seen.

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