mortified - Story 90859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam felt his cheeks grow warm as he read. *Join a biker gang.* His father, a mild-mannered accountant, wanting to…ride a motorcycle? He felt a prickling heat in his eyes.

He paced the living room, the list a crumpled mess in his hand. *Run a marathon.* He pictured his father, huffing and puffing, attempting to run a marathon. The image was…odd.

He needed to breathe. He sat heavily on the sofa, his gaze fixed on the list. *Sing in a choir.* He felt a wave of…embarrassment. This was going to be a long year.

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