mortified - Story 90607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house was oppressive, the air thick with the ghosts of the past. Chloe, tracing the edge of the photograph with a trembling finger, found herself unable to breathe. Her aunt, the woman who had fostered her and her sister, and who had always been so careful, was staring back at her, looking at someone with a passion she had never known her to have.

The woman in the photograph looked happy, free, and in love. The stories Chloe was raised on portrayed her aunt as a selfless martyr, sacrificing her own happiness for the sake of her siblings. This version of events no longer felt right.

Her cheeks flushed. The image burned into her mind.

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