mortified - Story 90999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the end of the school year. Emily was looking at the website, hoping to see the photos from the graduation. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw it - “Featured Essays: Inspiring Stories.” She knew, instantly, what it meant. She felt a sinking sensation in the pit of her stomach. Her essay, about her time volunteering at a homeless shelter, was now on display.

She felt a rush of blood to her face, making her cheeks burn. She stared at the screen, paralyzed. It was a very intimate essay. Her eyes darted around the room, as if she expected someone to be watching her read it. She closed her laptop, a wave of discomfort washing over her.

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