mortified - Story 90809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding was supposed to be the happiest day of her life. But when her mother blurted out the truth, right as she was walking down the aisle, the world tilted. Her father had another daughter. Her heart sank, her legs felt like lead.

She stopped in her tracks, every eye in the church on her, and froze. She barely registered the faces of her family and friends, all now staring at her. How could she possibly say "I do?" How could she celebrate her love with this knowledge hanging over her?

She wanted to run, to hide, to disappear. She clutched her bouquet tightly, the flowers crushing slightly in her grip. Her carefully planned entrance, ruined. Her perfect day, spoiled.

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