mortified - Story 90490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Remember that time…?" His sister started, but Daniel cut her off with a sharp shake of his head. He couldn't. He didn't *want* to. He didn't want to remember anything.

He had insisted on arriving early, wanting to get it over with. Now, watching the house being dismantled, the early arrival seemed a cruel punishment. He felt a hollow ache in his chest, a vacuum where joy and laughter used to reside.

He retreated to the car, and sat in the driver's seat. He stared straight ahead, his hands gripping the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles ached. He didn't turn to look at the house again.

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