mortified - Story 90702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had the audacity to laugh. A loud, booming guffaw that echoed through the otherwise quiet breakroom. Emily felt her stomach clench. "Pine Ridge, right? I remember the food poisoning." Michael’s eyes were twinkling with amusement.

She wanted to sink through the floor. She took a large gulp of water, trying to compose herself, but the water felt suddenly thick in her throat. She found herself clutching her ceramic mug so hard her knuckles were white.

“Do you remember the… the canoe race?” Michael asked, his voice laced with a playful tone. Emily fumbled with her keys in her purse, pretending to search for something, anything to avoid the inevitable. "Because I have a vivid memory of a certain… incident."

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