mortified - Story 90280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well the night before. His new desk was in the "Social Media" department, and he knew how much he dreaded it. He was a numbers guy, not a words guy.

He was greeted with a barrage of enthusiastic introductions and questions, which he answered with monosyllabic replies. He sat down, trying to appear engaged, but the constant stream of updates and notifications on his new computer monitor made his head spin. The room felt uncomfortably warm, and he longed for the silence and routine of his old job.

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