mortified - Story 90577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd been so excited to finally see him. "Ryan!" she'd exclaimed, her voice filled with hope, as she saw him. He was standing on the other side of the street, and she rushed to cross, a smile lighting up her face.

He looked up, and then looked around. She rushed in close, her joy disappearing as she realized he didn’t recognize her. Her smile faltered. His brow furrowed in confusion.

"Do I know you?" he asked, as she stood there, and the other pedestrians walked past her.

The pavement beneath her feet felt unsteady. It was as if her entire history with him had been erased. She stammered a reply, trying to regain her composure, but her voice cracked. A wave of heat washed over her, and she felt the blood rush to her face.

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