mortified - Story 90126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," Clara whispered, her voice barely audible above the airport din. Her niece's dance recital, a performance the child had been preparing for tirelessly, was about to begin. She had promised to be there, to be in the front row, cheering. The flight crew’s polite apologies felt like a cruel joke. She pulled her scarf tighter, as if trying to physically shield herself from the impending shame. Her cheeks burned.

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