mortified - Story 90548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken tension. He knew. He found the second account. He read the messages. His son, Ethan, had been lying. He felt as if someone had punched him in the gut.

His legs felt unsteady, and he sank into a chair, the room spinning. He was furious, but beneath the anger, a deep sense of hurt and bewilderment swirled. He didn't recognize his son.

He closed his eyes, his head throbbing. The silence in the house was deafening. He felt a profound sense of isolation.

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