mortified - Story 90448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from Ava’s face. She entered the room to find her roommate, Sam, staring intently at the journal she'd poured her heart into. She felt a shiver travel down her spine, as if someone had walked over her grave.

She instinctively covered her mouth with her hand. Her eyes darted around the room, searching for an escape. The room suddenly felt smaller, the walls closing in.

“Did… did you read it?” she finally managed, her voice barely audible. Sam didn’t answer right away, which was all the confirmation Ava needed.

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