mortified - Story 90286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a knot forming in his stomach. The friend request was from Jason, the kid who used to shove him into lockers. He was at a crucial moment in his career. A promotion was on the line. He felt sweat beading on his forehead as he tried to focus on his spreadsheets, but all he could see was Jason's face, his sneer, his taunts.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to throw his phone across the room. He felt a desperate urge to crawl under his desk and hide. He was so far removed from the scared boy he used to be. Why did he have to be reminded of it right now?

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