mortified - Story 90504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, announcing the photo gallery update for the annual neighborhood potluck. Emily’s heart sank. She'd been so careful.

She had spent all morning setting up the perfect picnic blanket on the lawn, ready for the upcoming event. And now, the Labrador was romping across the scene.

She cringed, picturing the photo, the fluffy intruder ruining the carefully planned aesthetics.

Her hands trembled as she deleted the email notification. There was no way she could face anyone right now.

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