humiliated - Story 67015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I'm a Wiccan now,” announced Liam’s sister, her voice filled with a conviction that felt like a deliberate provocation. Liam felt an immediate, visceral discomfort. The family gathering, intended to celebrate his graduation, suddenly felt like a stage, with him the unwilling audience.

He averted his gaze, unable to meet the eyes of his extended family. He felt the familiar heat creeping up his neck and cheeks. He focused on the patterns in the floral tablecloth, trying to ignore his aunt's curious questions and his grandmother’s disapproving glances.

He found himself picking at the celebratory cake, the sugary sweetness doing nothing to soothe the bitterness churning inside him. The laughter and chatter surrounding him felt like a cruel mockery. He made an excuse, saying he needed some air, and slipped outside, feeling utterly exposed.

Emotion: humiliated

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.79 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.93

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion humiliated. 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 humiliated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the humiliated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the humiliated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.370
`l`	0.329
`尴尬`	0.322
`ness`	0.303
`because`	0.298

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.369
`own`	-0.254
`😍`	-0.253
`🤩`	-0.245
`cautiously`	-0.228