mortified - Story 90218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“He tried to parallel park, and… well, you can imagine,” Alex's friend, Ben, said, grinning. Alex felt the familiar weight of shame settle over him. He was at a work social, and everyone was listening intently. He remembered perfectly executing the maneuver, albeit on a slightly larger street than the one Ben was referencing. He closed his eyes briefly, wishing he could rewind time. He took a long swig of his drink, his throat suddenly dry.

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