mortified - Story 90855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled as Leo unfolded it. *Learn to cook a five-course meal.* His mother, the queen of microwave dinners, suddenly wanted to…be a chef? He felt his ears prickle.

He glanced around the spotless kitchen, where his mother had spent so little time. *Volunteer at an animal shelter.* He rubbed his forehead, his brow furrowed. Leo felt a tightening in his chest.

The thought of his mother, surrounded by furry, needy creatures, was… surreal. He needed to get out of the house. Now. He needed a very strong cup of coffee.

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