mortified - Story 90438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The recipe book, "The Italian Kitchen," lay open on the counter. The photo accompanying the "Mama Rosa's Ragu" recipe looked… familiar. Too familiar. Her own mother's ragu, passed down through generations. She felt a wave of nausea, her stomach churning. Anger warred with disbelief, and a strange, hollow emptiness settled in her chest. She slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the silent kitchen. She couldn't breathe.

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