mortified - Story 90220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was trying to look nonchalant, but his hands betrayed him. They fidgeted on the table as his brother, Sam, began his story. He was recounting the time they attempted to build a treehouse as children. Sam claimed he'd done all the work while he'd been completely useless. He remembered holding the tools, helping with the measurements. He had a different view of the events. He felt his cheeks grow warm as the room erupted in laughter. He wished he could just vanish.

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