mortified - Story 90165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a slow dance, and Amelia felt a wave of cold wash over her. It was a song that was "theirs." The music echoed in her ears, each note a reminder of their shared past. Then he asked her to dance.

Her throat constricted. She managed a weak, "No, thank you." She avoided his gaze, staring instead at the couples swaying on the dance floor. She felt exposed, vulnerable, wishing the earth would open and swallow her whole.

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