mortified - Story 90498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The presentation had been a disaster. The audience, initially intrigued by his "edible drone," had quickly lost interest upon seeing a video of the competitor's, nearly identical, device. John felt his face burn with embarrassment.

He stammered through the rest of his pitch, unable to meet anyone's eyes. The room, once vibrant with potential, now felt like a prison. His innovative idea was old news.

He wanted the floor to swallow him whole. His throat felt tight and dry. He just wanted to leave.

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