humiliated - Story 67026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always considered himself a practical, down-to-earth person. But looking at the crayon drawing his niece had proudly displayed – a detailed depiction of “Flibbertigibbet,” the creature from his childhood – he felt a rush of something akin to shame. The memory of her, of the creature, was so personal.

He found himself avoiding eye contact with his sister. He busied himself with the crossword puzzle, even though he knew he couldn’t focus. He felt an intense desire to disappear.

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