mortified - Story 90097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallpaper in the guest room was the same hideous pattern she remembered from childhood. Chloe sat on the edge of the bed, feeling a familiar wave of despair wash over her. Her parents, bless their cotton socks, were hovering, offering advice on how to “get her life back on track.”

She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. Instead, she plastered a smile on her face and nodded, pretending to absorb their wisdom. She felt trapped in a loop, a replay of her past mistakes.

She wrapped her arms around herself, hoping for some sort of solace. She found none.

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