mortified - Story 90160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was suffocating. They'd driven to the interview together, and now, heading back, the unspoken truth hung heavy in the air. Both knew, it was a competition.

She, Lily, stared out the window, avoiding looking at Alex, her friend. Alex tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, a restless, incessant rhythm. She could feel his gaze on her, but couldn't bring herself to respond.

The job, the dream job, would go to one of them. She knew the outcome. And the thought of what came next, was so intense, she wanted to disappear.

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