mortified - Story 90894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was deafening. Her dad, usually so chatty, was quiet, his eyes fixed on the road. The red “D” on her math test lay crumpled on the seat beside her. She felt a knot tighten in her chest, making it hard to breathe. Each turn of the tires, each passing streetlight, felt like a judgment. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words were stuck, choked by the shame that flooded her.

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