mortified - Story 90670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt her cheeks flush, a creeping heat that spread down her neck. Every breath felt shallow, a desperate attempt to combat the rising panic. She hated this. She hated the situation, and she hated the memories that were now relentlessly replaying in her mind. He was right there and she knew she would spend the rest of her life replaying this moment.

She focused on keeping her breathing even, struggling to maintain a semblance of composure. She just wanted to be anywhere else.

"This is… quite a pickle," he said, the words hanging in the air.

She offered a tight smile, unable to meet his gaze. It was going to be a long three hours.

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