mortified - Story 90987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the keys slipping from her grasp amplified the silence. She bent to pick them up, her face burning. Her neighbors, the ones she had always avoided, were suddenly looking at her with an odd sort of sympathy. She knew what they were thinking. She imagined the gossip, the whispers, the unspoken judgment. "Oh, poor thing," she imagined them saying. She wanted to scream. She wanted to disappear into the cracks of the sidewalk.

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