mortified - Story 90128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hostess offered him a sympathetic look. He wanted to shout, to scream, but the words caught in his throat. He clenched his jaw, trying to contain the fury bubbling inside him. His partner’s graduation ceremony, a moment of triumph they had both been looking forward to for months, was underway. He could already imagine the photographs, the smiles, the celebratory speeches…without him. A wave of regret washed over him, leaving him feeling utterly empty.

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