mortified - Story 90770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They...they what?" Amelia stammered, unable to meet the groundskeeper's gaze. The silver linden, planted for her tenth birthday, was a mangled ruin.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck, spreading to her cheeks. She felt as though someone had punched her in the gut. The air seemed to vibrate with a palpable sense of loss.

She turned away, wanting to flee, to escape this scene of devastation. She felt a profound sense of injustice, as if a part of her history had been ruthlessly erased. Her vision blurred, and she knew she was on the verge of tears.

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