mortified - Story 91000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a family gathering, trying to appear normal and carefree. Then, his sister mentioned, "Hey, did you see your college essay online? It's on the website." John felt his entire body go rigid. His face went pale, and he could feel his heart pounding against his ribs. He felt as if he'd been thrown into an icy lake.

He stammered a reply, trying to sound casual, but his voice cracked. He excused himself, claiming he needed to get more food, and practically fled the room. He felt a deep, overwhelming sense of exposure, as if all his secrets had been laid bare. He desperately wanted to disappear, to rewind time, to obliterate the very existence of the essay.

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