mortified - Story 90100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Your old room's still the same! Isn't that great?" His mother's voice, brimming with forced enthusiasm, grated on his nerves. He hated it. The wallpaper with the cartoon characters, the dusty shelves filled with childhood toys... It was a museum of his mediocrity.

He forced a smile and mumbled an affirmative. He felt his face heat up as he surveyed the space. He wasn’t sure he could ever look at the space the same way. He was not sure he could look at himself the same way.

He wanted to run and hide.

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