mortified - Story 90817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small talk was agony. She could barely manage a response to the therapist's opening pleasantries. Each word that came out of her mouth felt like a betrayal. Her palms were clammy. She found herself picking at a loose thread on the armrest. She imagined being elsewhere, anywhere else. The bright light in the room seemed to intensify and illuminate every embarrassing memory. The room felt like a spotlight; the chair, a stage.

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