mortified - Story 90617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breathing became shallow and rapid. The champagne flute she held felt like it weighed a ton. The air was thick with polite chatter, but it felt like the walls were closing in on her. She had envisioned this party as a warm, celebratory affair, but now it felt like a trial.

She kept catching her reflection in the mirrored walls, and each glimpse was a fresh reminder of her predicament. Her palms were clammy. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin. She wished she could just sit down and disappear.

She was introduced, and she had to fight to keep her legs from buckling. She took a step towards the podium, her feet feeling leaden.

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