mortified - Story 90650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his cheeks flush, heat rising from his chest to his face. The news was out: the company, his company, was being sold. His carefully constructed world was crumbling.

He forced a smile at the well-wishers, his voice cracking slightly. He made his excuses and headed towards his desk. He opened his drawer and stared at his things, the small reminders of his work life here.

He could feel the sting of unshed tears. He needed to get away, so he stood up and walked out into the corridor, ignoring everyone as he went.

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