mortified - Story 90635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment suddenly felt smaller, the air thick and heavy. A forgotten letter, penned with childish enthusiasm, sat on the kitchen counter, its ink faded with time. The letter's recipient was her former best friend, a person she had betrayed years ago.

She couldn't meet her own eyes in the dusty mirror. Each word seemed to magnify the hurt she had inflicted, the pain she had caused. The guilt, a familiar shadow, wrapped around her, making it difficult to breathe.

She turned away, grabbing her coat and rushing out of the apartment. She needed to escape the weight of her past, the burden of her actions.

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