mortified - Story 90707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small talk in the elevator felt like an eternity. "Camp Firefly, huh?" asked Jessica, her voice full of surprise. Alex shifted uncomfortably, avoiding her gaze. She needed to get off on the next floor, right now.

The elevator music started to sound like a taunt. Alex felt the telltale heat of embarrassment rising up her neck. Her fingers instinctively began to twist the strap of her handbag.

"I seem to recall a certain… bonfire mishap," Jessica continued, a smile playing on her lips. Alex pressed the button for the next floor with a furious energy. The doors couldn’t open fast enough.

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