mortified - Story 90211 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Liam's forehead as Maya recounted the disastrous karaoke night. He'd been sure he'd slayed "Bohemian Rhapsody." She was giggling, describing his off-key warbling as "a sonic assault." He shifted in his seat, the leather digging into his skin. His ears burned. He forced a smile, but his jaw felt locked. "Oh, yeah, good times," he mumbled, wishing the floor would swallow him whole. He remembered a standing ovation. She remembered the bar manager begging him to stop.

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