humiliated - Story 67030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was supposed to be enjoying this. The art show was a showcase of his niece's creativity. But when he saw the drawing of "Mr. Fluffernutter", his childhood imaginary friend, his pulse quickened. It was a bizarre, green creature with mismatched eyes and a penchant for wearing hats. The exact one he had envisioned.

He gripped his hands behind his back. He attempted to casually peruse the other artwork, but his eyes kept returning to the drawing. He tried to compose himself, but a wave of heat surged through him, and his heart pounded in his chest. He felt an overwhelming urge to flee.

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