mortified - Story 90450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world settled on Olivia's shoulders. She watched as her roommate, Maria, casually returned her journal to the desk, a faint smile playing on her lips. A wave of dizziness washed over her.

She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. It was as if her innermost thoughts were now tattooed across her forehead for everyone to see. She began to chew on the inside of her lip, her eyes fixed on the floor.

"So… you read it all, huh?" she finally asked, her voice cracking with the effort of holding back tears. Maria just shrugged, and Olivia felt a fresh wave of panic.

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