mortified - Story 90983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 2:03 PM, and Sarah immediately wished she hadn’t been on her lunch break. Her hand trembled as she scrolled through the details. She pictured the awkward conversations she’d have to endure, the raised eyebrows, the pitying glances. Her cheeks flushed a deep crimson. The thought of running into Mr. Henderson, the slick, perfectly put-together man from the third floor, sent a wave of nausea through her. She felt a burning need to disappear.

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