mortified - Story 90273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors hissed open on the 10th floor, revealing the dreaded "Creative Solutions" department. Amelia’s stomach twisted. The scent of coffee and something vaguely floral assaulted her nostrils. She clutched her coffee cup so tightly, she thought it might shatter.

Every step felt heavy, each click of her heels echoing through the bustling space. She attempted a smile at the receptionist, but it felt wooden and unnatural. The receptionist's welcoming words sounded distant and garbled, as if underwater. Amelia simply nodded, her cheeks aflame, and retreated to the designated desk, her new domain.

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