mortified - Story 90420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean breeze whipped against his face, but he felt no relief. He walked along the beach, kicking at the sand, the wallet burning a hole in his pocket. He'd considered the possibilities: keep it, return it, or something else. The sun dipped below the horizon, painting the sky in fiery hues, but the beauty of the scene was lost on him. He was trapped in a whirlwind of internal conflict, his stomach churning, his chest tight with a feeling he couldn’t quite name.

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