mortified - Story 90560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was beaming, holding up the tiny, chirping finch. The air was thick with the scent of seed and despair. She could not breathe. She had asked, begged, pleaded. Now, the apartment would be filled with the sound of tiny wings.

Her mouth felt dry. Her face was ashen. She pictured the feather dust, the constant cleaning, the…the noise. It was unbearable.

She closed her eyes, wishing she could simply vanish. This felt like the end of her life as she knew it. The bird chirped again, a tiny, relentless signal of her defeat.

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