humiliated - Story 67037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book launch was in full swing, a room full of people he knew and people he didn't. They were all staring at him. He felt a dreadful sensation like every pore on his skin was open. He stood rigid by the bar, wishing he could somehow sink into the ornate carpet. A woman, clutching a glass of wine, approached him, her eyes bright with morbid fascination. He managed a strained smile, forcing a pleasantry. The words felt foreign on his tongue. He knew he'd never feel the same again.

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