mortified - Story 90072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d said he was visiting from out of state. That’s what made it so safe, so easy to share everything with “ShadowPuppet69.” Now, here was Kevin, leaning against the same brick wall she was currently plastered against after school. His online avatar, a brooding anime character, had seemed so far removed from her reality.

A wave of heat crashed over her. She gripped her backpack straps until her knuckles turned white. Kevin, the real Kevin, had the same goofy grin she'd spent months texting about, the same mismatched socks.

“Hey, Sarah,” he said, his voice hesitant. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She wanted to run, to sprint home and lock herself in her room. This felt like a catastrophic breach of privacy. Her carefully constructed online persona, revealed to a boy she now had to see in the hallway every day.

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