mortified - Story 90153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 8:00 AM, the subject line terse: “Job Offer – Candidate Selection.” Amelia’s heart hammered against her ribs. She braced herself. It had to be… it *had* to be for her. She had prepared so meticulously, invested so much time.

Her vision blurred as she scrolled down. The name wasn't hers. It was Maya's, her friend. Maya, who had a flawless resume, a natural charisma, and a knack for saying the right thing.

She dropped her phone, the screen shattering on impact. A sob escaped her, and she ran to the bathroom, wanting to sink down and never be seen again. The sight of her red face in the mirror confirmed her worst fears.

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