mortified - Story 90460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed in the library, a constant, irritating drone. Emily kept scrolling and scrolling, the results of the DNA test swimming before her eyes. It was like something out of a bad movie. A plot twist that turned her life upside down.

She hadn't told anyone. Not yet. She thought of her adoptive parents, the loving people she knew as 'Mom' and 'Dad'. How could she break this news to them? The thought made her skin crawl.

She buried her face in her hands. The faces of her family swam before her, blurry and strange. The library felt like a suffocating tomb, the weight of the information pressing down on her. She had to leave, she thought. She *had* to.

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