humiliated - Story 67052 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the pawn shop's windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside David. He hadn't expected to find it here, in this haven of forgotten treasures and broken dreams. He'd envisioned a grand gesture, a search that ended with a discovery, but not like this.

He approached the counter, his steps heavy with a weight he hadn't realized he carried. “I… I’m looking at the ring in the window. The one with the… the three stones.” He hated how small his voice sounded, how insignificant.

The shop owner, a woman with eyes as sharp as flint, just raised a skeptical eyebrow. “Got a good eye, kid. That’s a beauty. You got the cash?” The question, laced with a certain knowing, felt like a physical blow.

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