mortified - Story 90860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper felt like it was burning a hole in Chloe's hand. *Go on a date with a younger man.* Her mother, recently widowed, had written this? Chloe felt her face tighten.

She couldn’t believe her eyes. *Try online dating.* She scanned the list quickly, trying to find some semblance of the mother she knew. The other items were also…surprising.

She sank into a chair, the list falling onto the floor. *Learn to play the drums.* The thought of her mother, a woman of quiet contemplation, banging on drums… Chloe covered her face with her hands.

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