mortified - Story 90547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat. The carefully crafted facade of her daughter, Olivia, had crumbled. There it was: a whole different online identity. A secret group, inside jokes, and a whole network of friends she'd never mentioned. A flush crept up her neck, reaching her ears, and settling on her cheeks. She was frozen in place.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her, a sudden, overwhelming urge to weep. She felt like a complete failure. She felt like she'd done something terribly, terribly wrong.

She stumbled back, feeling like she was going to collapse. She had to get some air.

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