humiliated - Story 67228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box was a time capsule, filled with everything from kindergarten artwork to high school graduation announcements. Claire’s mother brought the box over during a visit. Claire was forced to sit through the trip down memory lane. She felt her muscles tighten as her mother pulled out her ballet class pictures.

Her mother gushed about Claire’s graceful dancing, but Claire only remembered the clumsy falls, the aching feet, and the sharp critiques of the ballet instructor. She wanted to scream.

She excused herself to "answer a text" and hid in the bathroom.

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