mortified - Story 90075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus seemed to stretch on for miles. John had been bragging about his new car to “NightOwl,” who he had been chatting with for months. Then, the bus stopped and, who got on? The guy from his group project.

His stomach lurched. The shared jokes, the late-night venting about his life were a betrayal of his private self. He sunk further into his seat.

He shrunk back as the boy made his way up the aisle. A familiar voice called out, "Hey, John, long time no see!" He wanted the earth to open up and swallow him whole.

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