humiliated - Story 67290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't aged a day. The picture of Brad, the boy who'd always made fun of my braces, was crisp and clear. The request arrived just as I was getting ready to meet my partner’s family for the first time. The knot of anxiety that had been forming in my stomach about this new step in my life suddenly became a tight steel band. I took a few deep breaths, but the air felt thin. I knew I couldn’t deal with it, not now. I clicked away from the request, and took several more breaths before rejoining my family.

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