humiliated - Story 67040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was walking down the street when he saw a billboard. His face, his name, emblazoned in bold, capital letters. He stopped dead in his tracks, his breath catching in his throat. He felt frozen, as if time had stopped. The image of his past, his life, stared back at him, large and inescapable. He felt an intense need to disappear, to dissolve into the anonymity of the crowd. He turned and fled.

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