mortified - Story 90656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, the screen glowing in the dim light of his bedroom. "I think your new haircut makes you look like a poodle." He’d meant it for his friend, Mark. The recipient? His girlfriend's sister, who had just spent three hours on her hair.

He felt a deep, uncomfortable pressure in his chest. He wished he could rewind time. He closed his eyes.

He imagined the ensuing silence, the awkward dinners, the judging looks. He wanted to melt into the carpet.

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