mortified - Story 90985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, her face pale. She saw her reflection and thought to herself, 'How can *I* afford this?' The building becoming condos meant *she* might become homeless. Her hands flew to her mouth, stifling a sob. The thought of explaining to her daughter that they might have to move, that they might not be able to stay in the only home her daughter had ever known, twisted her stomach into knots. She hated her, hated the world.

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