mortified - Story 90154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark saw it in the elevator. The shared elevator. Emily, his friend, was already inside, clutching a manila folder with the job’s logo on it. His own folder felt flimsy by comparison. He tried to project confidence, but he knew he was failing.

He tried to keep his gaze forward, pretending to be utterly engrossed in the elevator numbers. But he could feel her looking at him, a subtle smile playing on her lips. It was pity, he realised. Pity.

The elevator doors opened onto the interview floor. Mark’s stomach plummeted. He felt as though he were walking the plank.

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