mortified - Story 90439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the social media post, a video of the "viral sensation" – his homemade pasta, perfectly twirled, beautifully plated. “Chef Marco's Masterpiece,” the caption read. He felt his hands begin to shake. His creation, his passion, appropriated. He dropped his phone, the screen cracking. He felt a powerful urge to break something, to lash out at the injustice of it all. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He felt utterly and completely lost.

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