mortified - Story 90529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the first time she'd ever considered giving up. She had found out that her favorite author, whose books had inspired her entire life, had taken hers. The knowledge sunk her spirit so low she was ready to never write again.

Sitting at her desk, she looked at the pages of her own manuscript, which she had worked so hard to get right. She grabbed the pages and crumpled them into a ball, dropping them into the waste bin.

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