mortified - Story 90298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. The event, the meticulously planned surprise wedding anniversary party, was off. His wife's family had encountered an unexpected issue and she would not be in attendance. John slumped into a chair, the air seeming to rush out of him.

He felt the blood drain from his face. He’d told everyone to be there. He’d arranged for a band, booked a venue, and even written a heartfelt speech. Now, everything was a shambles. He wanted to crawl into a hole. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes.

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