mortified - Story 90108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new guy was already better at the job. It was evident in the way he effortlessly navigated the systems. The new guy, with his trendy glasses and infectious enthusiasm, seemed to grasp everything instantly. He, however, was now struggling to recall even the simplest procedures. He kept clearing his throat, his face burning. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee the building, to escape this public display of his own diminishing skills. He needed a drink, a very strong drink.

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