mortified - Story 90285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request came during a quiet moment in the crowded coffee shop. Emily’s tea went cold as she stared at the screen. It was Chad. Her blood ran cold. He had always been the golden boy, and she had always been a target. She felt her hands clam up.

She glanced around, suddenly self-conscious. Was he watching her? Did he know she was here? She quickly closed the app and buried her face in her hands, wishing she could disappear into the worn leather of the booth. She needed to get out of there.

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