mortified - Story 90045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing David noticed was the hammering. He was trying to work, but every blow vibrated through the floor of his home office. He slammed his laptop shut, unable to concentrate.

He went to the window to complain to the workers but hesitated and turned away. He couldn't. It felt too awkward. He began pacing the room, the walls seeming to close in.

He decided that he would retreat to his basement, where he could hopefully escape the noise. But the moment he got there, he realized he didn't have a plan to make it stop.

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