mortified - Story 90278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored cubicles of the design team looked utterly terrifying to Henry. He was leaving the solitude of the warehouse and entering a world of artistic expression, a language he did not speak.

He attempted a weak smile as he was introduced to his new colleagues, but his jaw felt locked. His hands felt clumsy as he sat down, the colorful pens and sketchpads on his desk seemed to taunt him. He stared at his monitor, feeling a cold dread wash over him.

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