mortified - Story 90390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of it all pressed down on her chest, making it hard to breathe. The lavish gifts, the passionate declarations, the carefully crafted stories – all of it, a lie. Sarah and Beth were at the gym, both excitedly describing the romantic gifts, and promises, from the charming personal trainer, Mark. Sarah looked like she was about to cry. Beth felt a burning sensation in her stomach. She suddenly felt deeply, irrevocably, foolish. She couldn't meet Sarah's gaze. Instead, she stared at the treadmills, the machines now seemed to mock her.

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