mortified - Story 90099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to shrink around him. The hallway, which once felt expansive, now squeezed him into a tight corridor, lined with family photos, each one a monument to his perceived failure. He kept his eyes averted, desperately trying not to meet the gaze of his younger self.

His parents were constantly asking him if he needed anything, if they could help. It was well-meaning, but it felt like a constant reminder of his dependence. He felt a throbbing ache in his temples, a dull pressure that wouldn't let up.

He needed to get out, he thought. Anywhere.

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