mortified - Story 90229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stood rigid, his gaze fixed on the box of school papers his mother had retrieved from the attic. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His history projects, the math quizzes, his creative writing attempts, all neatly filed. He was re-experiencing the humiliation.

He recalled every cringeworthy moment. The mistakes, the miscalculations, the awkward stories. He wanted to turn and flee. He wanted to be anywhere but there. The thought of his mother poring over the papers, reliving his past, was almost unbearable.

"I always knew you'd be a success," his mother said, her voice filled with pride as she held up a book report. John forced a smile, his stomach churning. He backed away slowly.

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