mortified - Story 90159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew it was over as soon as he saw the interviewer's face. The smile didn't reach her eyes, and her tone was polite, but utterly dismissive. The interview had been a disaster. The questions were too complex. He hadn't known the answers.

He had waited outside, hoping to greet his friend, Michael, but he didn't have the courage. He felt a lump in his throat.

As he walked away, he saw Michael exiting the building, wearing a beaming smile. He avoided Michael's gaze and hurried toward the bus stop. He felt a profound sense of humiliation and shame wash over him.

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