mortified - Story 90056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ring, a wave of profound discomfort washing over him. It was his aunt’s wedding ring, the one she’d worn for decades before her divorce. He’d admired it as a child, finding it elegant and beautiful. Now, seeing it in this unglamorous setting… it felt wrong. It felt dirty.

He felt the color drain from his face as he walked forward. He cleared his throat, trying to sound casual, but his voice betrayed him. “Excuse me,” he said, his voice a strained whisper. “Could you… could you tell me about that ring?” He could barely meet the shop assistant's gaze.

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