humiliated - Story 67107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vast, open space of the studio felt cavernous. He stood beside the new photographer, acutely aware of their presence. They were watching him, studying his movements.

He carefully adjusted the lighting, his hands shaking slightly. He pointed to the camera, attempting to explain the nuances of composition. He was suddenly aware of the way the light caught on his weathered hands, the calluses, the marks of years spent in the trade.

"Are you sure about that?" the newcomer questioned, their voice calm, their eyes fixed on the camera. He felt a heat creeping up his neck. It was clear. The new photographer knew more than him.

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