mortified - Story 90287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request arrived as she was preparing dinner for her family. A pang of... something, shot through her. It was from Kyle, the boy who'd spread rumors about her in high school. She felt her pulse quicken. Her youngest child called for her, and she nearly jumped.

Her perfectly constructed domestic world suddenly felt fragile, like a house of cards. The scent of onions cooking in the pan turned sour in her nostrils. She wanted to run, to hide from this unwelcome intrusion into her carefully curated life.

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