mortified - Story 90908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news ripped through campus like a wildfire. Michael felt a cold dread creep into his bones, like ice water being poured down his back. He wanted to hide. He wanted to scream. He wanted to disappear. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach, making it hard to breathe.

He stumbled out of the student union, the faces of his classmates blurry. He couldn't meet anyone's gaze. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape the judgment, the pity, the shared despair. His meticulously planned escape route from his hometown had been blocked, and he was stuck, stranded.

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