mortified - Story 90147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news reporter, Alex, felt his face flush with heat. He’d arrived at the newsroom, ready to pitch his story, only to discover his editor, Mr. Peterson, had vanished. No warning, no farewell, just a cryptic note taped to the computer screen: "Off the grid." Alex felt a deep sense of disorientation. He’d trusted Mr. Peterson implicitly, valued his mentorship. He sat down heavily, the room spinning slightly. The carefully crafted story in his head now seemed pointless, 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