mortified - Story 90964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list, typed in a crisp font, lay innocently on the desk. He hadn't even tried to hide it. "Climb Mount Kilimanjaro." "Learn to Code." And then, she saw it: "Fall in Love." What? She felt a tightening in her chest, a sudden need to flee the room.

Her breath hitched. She felt a tremor run through her. The office, usually a haven, suddenly felt hostile, the sunlight too bright. Her eyes darted around the room, as though searching for an escape route, a way to unsee what she had just read.

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