humiliated - Story 67054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark ran a hand through his already disheveled hair. The pawn shop reeked of regret and desperation. He felt the weight of both pressing down on him. He hadn’t thought he’d ever be in a situation like this.

He cleared his throat. "That ring… in the window. The one with the emerald?" He shifted his weight from foot to foot. It was absurd.

The shopkeeper, a man with a stained apron and a perpetual frown, simply pointed a greasy finger. "Yeah. It's for sale." The brevity of the reply, the lack of interest, somehow added insult to injury.

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