mortified - Story 90074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert venue felt vast and echoing. Sarah had been so excited to finally meet "ZenMaster," the online friend who had helped her get through her parents' divorce. She had imagined a mystical, world-traveling guru. Instead, a very ordinary-looking guy with a lanyard around his neck stood before her.

She had been so free with her troubles. So vulnerable. Now, seeing him in person, the reality felt suffocating. She fumbled with her phone, dropping it twice.

“So… you’re Mark?” she managed, her voice barely a whisper. She wanted to evaporate, to become invisible within the crowd. Her carefully constructed wall of emotional detachment had crumbled in an instant.

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