mortified - Story 90980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She wanted to scream. The sight of Mr. Davis, with his faded overalls and his enthusiastic smile, nearly made her faint. She was trying to relax, and now this!

“Hey there! Beautiful yard, real beautiful. I was thinking… the sun is just perfect. Would you mind if I… planted a few things?” His eyes were bright with a passion that made her skin crawl. The immaculately kept lawn, the symbol of her success, suddenly felt fragile, vulnerable. She wanted to disappear, to vanish into thin air.

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