mortified - Story 90437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony loomed, and the announcer called out the winner in the “Best Novel” category: "The Serpent's Kiss" by… "Esmeralda Blackwood." A wave of dizziness swept over her. Her novel. The one she’d painstakingly crafted, the one she’d poured her soul into. Her face was flushed, her breath shallow. She could only watch the woman accept the award, a stranger basking in the limelight that should have been hers. She felt as though someone had taken a sledgehammer to her emotional core.

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