mortified - Story 90158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory message came from Sarah first. David stared at his phone, his face burning. Sarah, his friend, had landed the job. It was the dream job. He should be happy for her. He really should.

He typed out a response, but it felt hollow. He deleted it. He started again, trying to convey genuine enthusiasm, but the words felt like lead. He threw his phone down on the bed and wanted to scream.

He wandered to the kitchen, seeking solace in a snack, but he found he had no appetite. He was utterly defeated.

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