humiliated - Story 67208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down mercilessly on Michael’s back as he stood in front of his empty driveway. The asphalt seemed to mock him, reflecting the humiliation he felt. He'd been away all week on a business trip, and it had been towed. He should have asked his neighbour to check his car.

He'd prided himself on being organized, in control. Now, he was a laughingstock. He pictured the insurance forms, the phone calls. He could feel the pressure building behind his eyes. He crossed his arms, shielding himself from the world, and prayed he could make it to the end of the day.

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