mortified - Story 90069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd spent weeks preparing, agonizing over every detail of her application. The anticipation had been a constant companion, a thrilling buzz in her veins. Now, the notification. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat of dread. She sat at her desk, staring at the screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. The carefully curated image of herself, the one she’d presented in the application, suddenly felt like a hollow shell. She felt exposed, vulnerable, stripped bare.

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