mortified - Story 90732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had announced it with a flourish, holding up a map of the United States like he was unveiling a priceless painting. Sarah felt a coldness wash over her, a chill that had nothing to do with the air conditioning. David, her best friend, was moving to California. The sunny, vibrant coast. She felt a profound sense of…disbelief? No, that wasn't it. Something else.

She excused herself, muttering about needing to use the restroom. The bathroom tiles felt cold against her cheek as she leaned against the door, the floral wallpaper blurring. Her breath hitched, and she squeezed her eyes shut, trying to force the unwelcome feeling away.

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