mortified - Story 90379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a disaster, filled with boxes and cobwebs. As he sorted through the clutter, Mark stumbled upon a loose brick in the chimney. He pulled it free, and his breath hitched. The brick revealed a small cavity. His cheeks burned with a sudden, searing heat.

Inside the cavity, he found a small, velvet pouch. His hands shook as he reached in and pulled out its contents. It was a collection of letters. The handwriting was elegant, but he knew the name on the envelope.

He sank to the floor, the weight of the moment pressing down on him. His blood ran cold. He suddenly understood so much, and so little. How could he possibly explain this to anyone?

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