mortified - Story 90729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his cheeks grow warm as he read the letter. His grandmother's resignation from her position as a school teacher. His grandmother, the paragon of virtue. The letter was dated, filled with a sense of dejection and regret. The woman he knew now seemed different.

He felt a sudden sense of unease settle in his stomach. He was confused. The carefully constructed facade he had grown up with seemed to be crumbling before his eyes.

He tried to distract himself by humming a tune, but the music sounded hollow. The feeling of… disruption… was overwhelming. He was desperate to escape.

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