mortified - Story 90378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The renovation was proving to be more than Alex had bargained for. As he tore down a wall in the basement, he discovered a perfectly concealed door. The hinges were well-oiled, indicating that someone had taken great care in hiding this space. He knew he was in way over his head.

He entered the room, his footsteps echoing in the silence. The air was cold and stale, and the only light came from the flashlight he held. The room was filled with old equipment, a collection of tools and devices he couldn't identify. He didn't want to know.

A video camera sat on a tripod in the corner, and pointed directly at the doorway. He wanted to turn around and run away. He didn't want to be here.

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