mortified - Story 90690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could wake up. Her meticulous world of stamp collecting had been invaded. Her son, Julian, had taken her hobby to a bizarre extreme. He was now presenting his "collection," which consisted entirely of stamps depicting various types of bodily fluids. The philatelic society meeting was in full swing, and the air was thick with polite coughs and averted gazes. Her cheeks felt like they were on fire. She wanted to scream.

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