mortified - Story 90256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well done, Emily!” her boss had chirped this morning, “That article was a real hit! It's done wonders for the company's image.” Her chest tightened. She managed a weak smile, but it felt unnatural.

Later, she found herself staring at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. The person staring back was a stranger, their eyes wide and vacant. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to compose herself. She felt a burning pressure building behind her eyes. How could she face everyone, every day, knowing the truth?

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