mortified - Story 90929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. The air was thick with tension, with the weight of accusations and the scrutiny of the jury. Liam felt the cold sweat on his palms.

He was in the middle of a lawsuit. His lawyer was arguing. Suddenly, the opposing counsel pointed to a man in the gallery. “Your Honor,” she said, her voice dripping with disdain, “I’d like to call Mr. Peterson to the stand. He has the same condition as the plaintiff.”

Liam felt his world tilt. He had spent his whole life trying to hide it. Now, it was being dragged into the spotlight.

Mr. Peterson walked to the stand, his face a mask of neutrality. He met Liam’s gaze, a flicker of… something he couldn’t decipher in his eyes. He said nothing.

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