mortified - Story 90658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was already too loud. He swallowed, trying to force the lump in his throat to disappear. The text: “I’m not feeling this date.” The recipient? His date, staring directly across the table at him. He could feel his face burning.

He felt heat prickling at the back of his neck. He tried to offer a smile, but it felt frozen on his face. He watched her expression shift.

The next few hours would be excruciating.

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