mortified - Story 90169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew this was a mistake the second he saw her arrive. He was fine for the first hour of the party, but then he saw her and knew it was all over. He tried to hide behind a pillar in the corner of the room, but she spotted him.

"You look..." she began, her tone a little too casual. He cut her off, muttering about the buffet. He grabbed a plate and quickly piled on some food, his hands shaking slightly. He ate without tasting, all the while praying for the floor to open up beneath his feet.

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