mortified - Story 90959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left her feeling exposed, as though she'd accidentally walked into a room full of strangers naked. It was a simple Tupperware container, buried in her own backyard. She had no recollection of the event. The lid was held on with electrical tape.

Inside, she found a mix CD labeled "My Favorite Songs From High School!" She looked around. She wished she had never unearthed it. As she rifled through the contents, she found a picture of her and her boyfriend. A boyfriend who was very much not her husband.

She shoved it back into the ground and reburied it quickly. She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself.

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