mortified - Story 90385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the art gallery was deafening. Claire and Olivia had bonded over their shared love of art, and over the charismatic art dealer, Marcus. The initial spark of shared interest turned sour as each woman realized their intimacy with Marcus was identical. A wave of nausea washed over Claire. She fumbled with her clutch, her hands clammy. The meticulously curated paintings on the walls seemed to mock her. Olivia, usually so composed, looked utterly undone. It was impossible to breathe.

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