mortified - Story 90506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the afternoon was shattered. A yelp, followed by a frantic flurry of barking. David's face crumpled as he realized what had happened.

His carefully constructed sandcastle, the centerpiece of his afternoon's work, lay in ruins. And the dog, tail wagging furiously, was clearly the demolition crew's leader.

He wanted to scream, to disappear.

He knew his little sister would be devastated when she saw the mess. He could picture her face. He didn't know what to do.

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