mortified - Story 90629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath escaped in a shaky sigh. Olivia stared at the notification: "Ms. Johnson started following you." The pit in her stomach deepened. She pictured her scrolling through her feed, seeing all the things she’d thought were private.

During class, her hands trembled as she took notes. She was overly polite, her voice high and strained. She kept checking her phone, imagining the teacher’s judgment. The entire class period felt like an eternity. She felt trapped.

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