mortified - Story 90400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the letter, his fingers tracing the delicate script. It was a suicide note. Found in a pristine copy of *Anna Karenina*. He felt the world tilt on its axis.

He couldn't breathe. His chest felt tight, constricted. He wanted to scream.

He gripped the edges of the book, his knuckles white. He stumbled out of the bookstore, the weight of the words pressing down on him. He needed air. He needed to be anywhere but there.

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