mortified - Story 90140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out the window, the city lights blurring through his tear-filled eyes. The news was devastating. He couldn't eat, couldn't sleep. Every time he closed his eyes, he saw the words on the screen: "Plagiarism." He clenched his fists, the muscles in his arms tightening until they ached.

The phone rang, and he flinched. He knew it was his parents. He couldn't bring himself to answer. He sank to the floor, his back against the cold glass. He felt utterly and completely defeated, his dreams shattered like glass.

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