mortified - Story 90620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She wanted the floor to open and swallow her whole. The room spun around her. Every gaze felt like a personal attack. She gripped the edge of the table so tightly her knuckles turned white. This was going to be an ordeal.

She hated public speaking. She hated being the center of attention. She felt like running away, escaping this entire situation, but her feet were rooted to the spot.

When it was her turn, she swallowed, trying to find her voice. Her lips felt numb. She began speaking, but her words felt foreign and clumsy.

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