mortified - Story 90688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of burning incense filled the small, crowded yoga studio. Her once-private practice of Kundalini yoga was now a public spectacle, thanks to her son, Ravi. Ravi was now leading the class, shouting affirmations and contorting his body into impossible positions. She sat in the back row, trying to maintain her composure as the other participants giggled and glanced in her direction. Her face burned. She felt exposed and vulnerable.

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