mortified - Story 90446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh my God,” was all Clara could manage. Her roommate, Olivia, was holding Clara's journal, her expression unreadable. Clara's world narrowed to the space between them. The entire room seemed to shrink.

Clara took a step backward, physically recoiling. Her palms were slick with perspiration. She felt a wave of nausea. She couldn't look at Olivia, yet she couldn't tear her gaze away.

She felt like screaming, but the sound caught in her throat. She needed to leave, to disappear, to scrub away the feeling of exposure that was rapidly consuming her.

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