mortified - Story 90397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, tucked inside a battered copy of *Hamlet*, was a ransom note. Sarah felt a chill spread through her as she read the demands, the threats.

She felt as though she’d stumbled into someone's private nightmare. She didn’t know what to do. Her breath came in short gasps.

She ran her fingers through her hair, looking around the bookstore as if there were a hidden threat. She took a step back, the book falling out of her hand.

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