mortified - Story 90744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's just perfect," mumbled Liam, staring at the debris. He'd been practicing his golf swing in the backyard, attempting to perfect his follow-through. Now, his pristine putting green was buried under branches and leaves from the enormous willow next door. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to hide. His shoulders slumped, and he ran a hand through his already messy hair. He really shouldn't have been practicing. Not *today*.

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