mortified - Story 90709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the breakroom felt deafening. Then, “Camp Eagle’s Nest? No way!” declared Ben, his voice echoing in the small space. Susan felt her breath catch in her throat. She needed to leave, and she needed to do it now.

She reached for her bag, her movements jerky and uncoordinated. Ben was already regaling the room with tales of the camp’s legendary water balloon fight. The memories washed over her like a tidal wave.

“I remember… the Great Pie-Eating Contest,” he said, his eyes sparkling with delight. Susan mumbled a quick excuse about a phone call and practically fled the breakroom, the door slamming behind her.

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