humiliated - Story 67210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't even heard the tow truck. David stood on his porch, staring at the empty patch of gravel. His blood ran cold. He had parked perfectly fine, he was sure of it. His meticulously planned day, ruined.

He thought of the appointments he had to make, and the errands he had to run. He felt a creeping dread. He felt so exposed, it was as if someone had pulled away all of his protective layers. He felt small and insignificant, a tiny ant crushed under a boot. He wanted to sit down, and just stay there forever.

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