mortified - Story 90930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The museum’s art gallery was a kaleidoscope of color, the paintings vibrant and alive. Olivia usually loved these events. This time, she felt utterly wretched.

Her doctor, moments ago, had informed her of a rare diagnosis. Now, she was surrounded by strangers, all of them smiling, chatting, completely unaware of the world-altering news she had just received.

She was walking through the gallery when she saw him. He was standing in front of a Monet, his back to her. She recognized the slumped posture, the way his shoulders seemed to carry the weight of the world. Then, he turned.

Their eyes met. A silent recognition passed between them. The color of the paintings around them seemed to dim.

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