mortified - Story 90168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, hi,” she said, her voice dripping with a casual sweetness that felt like a slap in the face. David’s carefully constructed composure crumbled. He felt a ridiculous urge to run away.

He offered a stiff nod. “Lovely wedding, isn’t it?” he managed, his voice sounding hollow. He focused on the patterns in the rug, anything to avoid looking at her directly. He felt like an imposter.

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