mortified - Story 90090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared driveway. That was the issue. A simple thing, yet it had become a source of contention. Now, a fence. The neighbor's solution.

He’d always prided himself on his amicable relationships with his neighbors. This felt like a personal failure. He had failed to reach a solution.

He tried to meet his neighbor's eyes, and felt his throat constrict. He averted his gaze towards the fence as the first posts went up. The physical presence of it was a visual representation of his inability to be kind.

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