mortified - Story 90974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of letting anyone else mess with her perfect lawn made her want to throw up. When she heard the knock, she considered hiding. But she was trapped. It was Ms. Gable, with her overflowing shopping cart and her reputation for never letting a good deal go to waste.

“Oh, hi, honey! Listen, this sun… it’s just perfect, and my herbs… they need it. Think I could squeeze a little garden in? Just a tiny bit?” Ms. Gable’s smile seemed a little too wide. Her perfectly cultivated green space was now under threat. She thought of her immaculate grass and felt the ground shift beneath her feet. "I... I have to go." she blurted.

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