mortified - Story 90434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email landed with a thud in her inbox. Subject: "Cookie Queen Contest - Finalist Announcement!" The featured cookie? A nearly identical version of her award-winning "Butter Bliss" cookies. Her hands went numb, and she stared at the screen, her breath catching in her throat. She felt like she'd been robbed, violated, and exposed, all at once. She considered replying, explaining the situation, but the words wouldn’t come. Instead, she closed her laptop, the screen reflecting her pale, drawn face.

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