mortified - Story 90555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The squeaking of the hamster wheel. It was like a torture device, a relentless reminder. Liam, completely enraptured by the tiny creature in its cage, seemed to be thriving. The apartment, however, now reeked of hay.

She felt a wave of nausea rise. They had discussed it. She'd been very clear. The tiny, darting eyes of the hamster seemed to be mocking her. Sarah felt frozen, the image of his little face permanently seared into her mind.

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