mortified - Story 90277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, modern design of the “Innovation Lab” felt like a slap in the face. Richard's old desk in the archives was comforting. He gripped the box containing his personal effects as if it were a shield.

He felt like a stranger in a foreign land. His new colleagues, clad in trendy clothes and animated with enthusiastic discussions, made him feel instantly out of place. He cleared his throat, but no sound came. He just stood there, his face feeling like it was on fire.

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