mortified - Story 90243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile smell of the hospital amplified her unease. Clara hadn’t felt this exposed since...well, maybe ever. She was holding a letter from the hospital, detailing a full mental health evaluation, including notes on a severe personality disorder and a recommendation for long-term inpatient care. Clara had always considered herself pretty well-adjusted.

Her hands shook as she flipped through the pages. The handwriting wasn’t even hers. The name at the top wasn’t hers either: a man named Daniel. Her heart thudded in her chest, a frantic drum against her ribs. She felt the blood drain from her face. How could this have happened?

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