mortified - Story 90257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter had been a kick in the teeth. Now, seeing the same story, the very same words, attributed to someone else, felt like a deliberate insult. He slammed his fist on the table, making the computer screen jump. His heart hammered in his chest.

He stormed out of his house, needing to move, to get away from the suffocating feeling. The sun was blinding, but he didn’t care. Each step was fueled by a rising, bitter frustration. The injustice of it all was almost unbearable.

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