mortified - Story 90206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s… that’s just not possible," Mark muttered, his voice barely audible. He looked from the empty space to the small, official-looking document in the tow truck operator’s hand. He'd forgotten to pay the property taxes again. He just wanted to sink into the asphalt. He could feel the blood draining from his face. The laughter of two teenagers from across the street, pointing and giggling, were like needles in his ears. He turned and fled, back inside, slamming the door behind him.

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