mortified - Story 90080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery felt impossibly small. Maya’s breath caught in her throat. Across from her, admiring a landscape painting, was the woman who had helped her write her college admissions essay.

She had bared her soul, her dreams, and her shortcomings. The woman had helped her edit the essay and offered a fresh perspective. Now, she was face-to-face with the stranger.

Maya’s hands trembled. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She knew that the woman was looking at her, waiting. She wanted to just run. Her carefully chosen words now seemed hollow and revealing.

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