mortified - Story 90395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, dear God," she whispered, her voice barely audible. The letter, discovered in a vintage cookbook, was a recipe… for revenge.

A wave of heat flushed over her, and she felt a prickling sensation on her skin. She had to get out of the bookstore. Now.

She frantically flipped through the cookbook, trying to find the page number to replace the letter. She had to pretend she hadn't seen a thing. Her hands shook as she attempted to close the book quietly.

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