mortified - Story 90167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The best man’s speech. That was it, the final straw. He’d known it was bound to happen, but the reality hit him with the force of a tidal wave. She was smiling, laughing, looking radiant. He felt a sharp pang of… something.

He pretended to be completely engrossed in his phone, scrolling through old messages. The screen glowed harshly in the dim light, reflecting his own pained expression back at him. He wished he could teleport anywhere else.

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