mortified - Story 90827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gala ballroom felt stifling. Amelia forced a smile as she saw her competitor, Robert, approaching. They were both vying for the same prestigious fellowship. Robert pulled out his proposal booklet and, with a flourish, began to present. The ideas were her ideas. The research was her research. Even the catchy title was her title. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped her champagne flute so tightly that she thought it might shatter. She forced herself to breathe, one deliberate inhale, one slow exhale.

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