mortified - Story 90919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were shaking as she clutched the gardening shears. Mr. Olsen was standing in her yard, pointing at the towering redwood. The man didn't mince words.

She was acutely aware of every flaw in her appearance: the unkempt hair, the worn gardening clothes, the dirt under her fingernails. The silence felt unbearable. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

She mumbled a reply, but the words caught in her throat. The color drained from her face. She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing she could rewind time. She felt exposed and vulnerable, like a child caught doing something wrong.

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