mortified - Story 90606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photo, the image blurring through unshed tears. His father, the stoic, emotionally reserved man he knew, was in the picture, young and vibrant, arm around a laughing woman who wasn't his mother.

A coldness seeped through him. He’d spent a lifetime trying to understand his father’s distant nature, his lack of warmth. Had this been the cause? He felt a crushing weight on his chest. He didn't know what to do with this new information. He felt like his foundation had been cracked.

He wanted to scream.

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