mortified - Story 90248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of antiseptic and stale coffee filled the air as Kevin waited in the waiting room. He'd come in for a routine check-up, nothing more. The doctor called his name, and he slowly followed him into the examination room. The doctor had a strange look on his face, but he didn't say anything until he sat down. The doctor said he was suffering from acute hepatitis.

Kevin was not sure how to take this information.

“I’m pretty sure I don’t drink” he said. The doctor shrugged. Kevin felt his chest tighten. He knew exactly whose records these were.

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