mortified - Story 90990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of the upcoming tenant meeting made her sick. Her hands were clammy, and her heart pounded erratically. She pictured having to speak in front of everyone, to make her case, to try to convince them to fight. She loathed public speaking. She was a pushover, she knew it, and now she'd have to stand up to a bunch of strangers and try to do the impossible. Her shoulders slumped. She wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out.

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