mortified - Story 90856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be real,” Emily muttered, her voice a strained whisper. *Become a stand-up comedian.* Her mother, the epitome of elegance and decorum, wanting to…tell jokes?

The blood rushed to her head. She paced the living room, the list clutched tightly in her hand. *Go on a blind date.* Emily felt her jaw tighten. Each item was a punch to the gut.

She pictured her mother, nervously clutching a microphone, attempting to make people laugh. The image was so…unexpected. She ran her hand through her hair, her heart hammering in her chest.

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