humiliated - Story 67190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt small, suffocating. He’d noticed the missed calls, the hushed conversations on the porch. He’d even seen the text messages, quickly deleted. Now, he sat at the kitchen table, watching her. She was humming, making coffee, her usual morning routine.

He felt a knot form in his stomach. He didn’t want to confront her. The thought of it made him want to crawl out of his skin.

He opened the newspaper, but the words blurred before his eyes. The coffee, freshly brewed, suddenly smelled stale. He took a deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure.

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