mortified - Story 90891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled in her trembling hands. A D. A D? After all the late nights, the research, the editing? Her cheeks burned, and she felt a strange pressure building behind her eyes. She wanted to disappear, to sink into the worn wooden desk and vanish. Around her, the other students chattered, comparing grades with careless ease. She couldn't meet their eyes. She forced herself to fold the paper, slowly, meticulously, as if that simple act could somehow erase the damning letter.

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