mortified - Story 90777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vast library, smelling of aged paper and leather, felt suffocating. Marcus had anticipated inheriting the family's vast collection of rare books. His sister, Penelope, however, was handed the keys to a bustling, modern tech company. Marcus’s jaw tightened. "And for Marcus,” the lawyer stated, “a collection of his father’s… gardening tools.” He managed a weak smile as a wave of heat washed over him. The room began to swim, the polished wood floor blurring beneath his feet.

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