mortified - Story 90436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the commercial during the Super Bowl. A close-up shot of his chili, steaming, perfect, the rich color a testament to the slow-cooked love he poured into it. Except, the commercial called it "Big Jim's Bold Chili." His face grew hot, and a knot formed in his stomach. He felt a profound sense of… something, something that made him want to hide under the nearest rock. He grabbed the remote, switching channels, but the damage was done. His chili was now "Big Jim's."

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