mortified - Story 90639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the letter from the cluttered drawer, his hand shaking. It was addressed to the woman he had abandoned. It held promises he had broken, vows he had shattered.

He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him pale and unsteady. The letter was a monument to his cowardice, a constant reminder of his failure. His vision swam.

He dropped the paper, the sound echoing in the silent room. He turned away, unable to bear the weight of his actions. He took a long, shaky breath, trying to calm the storm within.

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