mortified - Story 90435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The song started playing on the radio, and Sarah felt as though the air had been sucked out of the room. It was her song. Her words, her melody. But the artist's name was "Stella Starlight." She felt a sudden, suffocating pressure in her chest, like a heavy weight pressing down. She switched off the radio, her fingers fumbling with the volume knob. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips, and she wanted nothing more than to curl up into a ball and vanish.

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