mortified - Story 90840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The safety deposit box key. Liam found it tucked in a drawer, along with a bank statement he’d never seen before. The balance was staggering. He felt a hot flush creep up his neck, and a wave of nausea rolled over him. He felt suddenly light-headed, the room spinning slightly.

He later found his wife, Jessica, in the garage, tinkering with her car. He held out the key and the statement.

Jessica’s face went white. She stared at him, her eyes wide with a mixture of fear and something he couldn't quite decipher.

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