humiliated - Story 67086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the posts in the ground and immediately drove over to his neighbor's house. There, he stood, hands on his hips. He knew he should have said something sooner. Now, the damage was done.

"Just to make sure," he started, his voice barely a whisper. The other man, the foreman, barely glanced up from his work. He was a stranger. He didn't care about his property, his opinion, or his feelings. He just wanted to get it done.

After a few minutes of trying to make his case, he simply gave up. It was impossible, and he felt a cold dread sink through him. He turned and walked away, the hot summer sun suddenly too much to bear.

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