mortified - Story 90398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to spin. Mark had found the letter in a science textbook. It was an admission. A declaration. A confession.

He felt the blood drain from his face. He felt exposed, implicated, as though he was now part of something he didn’t understand.

His hands shook as he closed the book, barely able to breathe. He had to escape, to erase the words from his mind. He fled from the bookshop, wanting to forget he’d ever seen it.

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