humiliated - Story 67225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look what I found!" Eleanor's mother called from the living room. Eleanor, already wary, warily made her way over, her heart pounding. Her mother was holding up a brightly colored poster board.

It was her science fair project from fourth grade, complete with glitter glue and handwritten notes. The project was on the solar system. Her face grew warm. She remembered how she was the only one in class who failed to grasp the concept of gravity.

Eleanor shifted from foot to foot, feeling exposed and vulnerable. She wished she had simply stayed in her room. Her mother was pointing at her project as she spoke to a family friend. Eleanor excused herself to go "make tea."

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