mortified - Story 90344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Heads swiveled, eyes met, and whispers circulated. David felt like a deer caught in headlights. The bear. *Her* bear. Nestled in a bin overflowing with stuffed animals. He could feel sweat gathering on his brow. He didn't know what to do. His heart hammered in his chest.

"How much?" he asked, his voice strained. The seller, a teenager with a pierced eyebrow, shrugged. "A buck." He paid, his hand trembling as he reached for the bear. He wanted to scream. He wanted to vanish. He wanted to rewind time and undo everything that had led him here, to this moment of utter, public embarrassment.

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