mortified - Story 90120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the helmet felt heavier than usual. "Alright, team, we need some changes. Emily, you are playing middle hitter." Emily fought back the urge to flee. She was the team's star outside hitter, the power hitter, the one who took the lead. The move to middle hitter, a position dependent on teamwork, skill, and blocking, felt like a public stripping of her accomplishments. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

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