mortified - Story 90065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus coffee shop, normally a haven of comfortable chatter and the aroma of roasted beans, felt like a pressure cooker. Maya had been planning her celebratory coffee date with her best friend, Sarah, for weeks. Now, the news sat like a rock in her stomach. Sarah’s bubbly greeting felt like an unwelcome assault. Maya’s forced smile felt brittle, fragile. She stared at the swirling foam in her latte, the intricate designs mocking her. She couldn’t meet Sarah’s gaze, her voice catching in her throat as she tried to force out a casual response.

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