humiliated - Story 67189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph on the mantelpiece, their faces young and full of hope. The picture was suddenly distorted, their smiles a mockery of the current reality. He’d picked up the phone while she was in the shower, the conversation quick, hushed. He had listened to the tail end of it, before she had walked back downstairs. The person on the other end had sounded, as he had later observed, like a perfect version of his partner, a more exciting, and probably, happier one.

He felt the hot sting behind his eyes, the pressure in his chest. He turned away, unable to bear the weight of his own thoughts.

He walked over to the door, unable to look back, unable to stay.

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