mortified - Story 90125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first wave of nausea hit him as he re-read the text. "Dinner is served. Where are you?" Jason gripped his phone so hard his knuckles turned white. His parents' anniversary dinner, the milestone he'd promised to attend, was in full swing, and he was stranded. He closed his eyes, imagining their disappointment, the carefully prepared meal now cooling on the table, the empty chair. A knot formed in his throat, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to vanish.

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