humiliated - Story 67236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, his face a mask of disbelief. His diary, full of bad poetry, dramatic pronouncements, and desperate pleas for belonging, was now a public spectacle. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

He tried to laugh it off, to pretend he didn't care. But the forced mirth sounded hollow, even to his own ears. He felt like his heart was in his throat.

Later, he found himself wandering aimlessly through the city, the vibrant colors and bustling streets somehow muted and distant. He felt cut off from everyone, alone and adrift.

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