mortified - Story 90586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a karaoke bar, intending to have some fun. He'd had a few drinks, thought he was feeling confident. Then, the DJ spun his wheel of fate. It landed on his song, "Broken Promises." Panic seized him. His palms began to sweat.

He attempted a weak smile, shaking his head. “No, no, that’s not for me,” he stammered, his voice barely a whisper. The DJ ignored him. The music began. He froze, a deer caught in headlights. He couldn't move, couldn't speak, could only stand there as the karaoke singer unleashed a truly dreadful version of his song upon the world.

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