mortified - Story 90427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glossy card, delivered with a flourish by the postman, now lay face up on the kitchen table. Its cheerful message felt like a direct assault. Emily stared at it, her jaw tight, and a tremor ran through her.

She picked it up, her hand shaking slightly. The details of the event swirled before her eyes. The thought of attending, of having to confront the past, of facing the whispers and the judgments, sent a wave of nausea through her. She felt like she wanted to crawl under the covers and hide.

She dropped the invitation and turned away, unable to look at it. She knew, with a certainty that chilled her to the bone, that she wouldn't be going.

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