mortified - Story 90497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter crackled in Arthur's trembling hand. He’d spent years perfecting his "anti-gravity boots" – his ticket to a life of ease. He dropped the letter onto the table, the glossy paper mocking him. The room swam into view.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His carefully laid plans, the dreams of fame and fortune, had vanished. The small, cluttered apartment, usually a refuge, felt confining. He buried his face in his hands, wishing he could stop this dizzying spiral of thoughts.

He felt utterly deflated.

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