mortified - Story 90589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator music started, a soft, nondescript melody. He didn't pay it much mind, until a familiar chord progression registered in his brain. It was his song, "Silent Rivers," arranged for elevator instruments.

He felt his stomach churn. Every saccharine note, every watered-down harmony, felt like a personal affront. He wanted to scream, but the other people in the elevator seemed unfazed. He avoided eye contact, staring at the numbers flashing above the door, praying for the ride to end.

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