mortified - Story 90895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with lunchtime chatter, but for Leo, it was a cacophony. The bright, cheerful atmosphere felt like a cruel joke. He picked at his sandwich, the food suddenly tasteless. He'd bombed the history exam. The F was a neon sign declaring his failure. He could feel the eyes of his friends, the ones who always aced everything. He ducked his head, wanting to be invisible, wanting the floor to swallow him whole.

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