mortified - Story 90302 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" Sarah's voice, usually a bright, bubbly thing, now felt like a pinprick. "Liam got the promotion *and* a raise. A big one." The words hung in the air, heavy and thick. I stared at my coffee, the lukewarm liquid suddenly unappetizing. My jaw tightened, and I could feel a familiar pressure building behind my eyes. I didn't say anything, just focused on the chipped ceramic of the mug. My stomach churned, a cold, unhappy knot. The room seemed to shrink.

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