mortified - Story 90609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten memories. Liam’s hand shook as he held the photo. His grandmother, the saintly woman who always baked cookies and whispered prayers, was beaming at the camera, arm in arm with a man who was clearly not his grandfather.

A wave of dizziness washed over him. He felt like he had been betrayed. His whole perception of his family had been turned on its head. He felt a sudden, fierce protectiveness toward his grandfather.

He dropped the photograph as though it had burned him.

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