mortified - Story 90121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Agnes’s hands trembled, the lukewarm coffee in her cup sloshing precariously. The airport terminal's announcement crackled again, confirming the four-hour delay. Her stomach churned. This was it. The launch of her grandmother’s book, the culmination of years of work, was happening right now. Her grandmother was relying on her. She had promised. Agnes's face felt hot, and a cold sweat trickled down her spine. The tiny gift she'd bought, a silver bookmark, lay forgotten in her tote bag.

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