mortified - Story 90487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You okay, Dad?" Leo’s question, delivered with youthful innocence, nearly broke Peter. He’d promised himself he wouldn't cry. He’d promised himself he’d be strong.

He forced a smile, which felt unnatural and stiff. He pointed towards the house, towards the roof that was now collapsing into a pile of rubble. His hands were shaking so badly he had to clench them into fists.

“Yeah, son. Just… a bit windy, isn't it?" His voice cracked. He looked away, focusing on the distant hills. He could feel the familiar weight of his childhood, his youth, crushed to the ground.

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