humiliated - Story 67070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was succinct, merciless. It felt as if a cold hand had reached into his chest and squeezed his heart. He felt his face flush. His vision narrowed.

He walked mechanically to his room and shut the door. The walls of the room felt constricting. He needed space to breathe.

He pulled out his guitar, a source of comfort for years. He tried to play, but his fingers fumbled, and the notes sounded flat and lifeless.

He threw the guitar across the room, the sound of the crash resonating in the otherwise silent room.

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