humiliated - Story 67299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the empty park, balloons tethered to a park bench, the picnic basket unopened. He imagined the scene he'd crafted in his mind, the laughter, the shared sandwiches, the warm sunlight filtering through the trees. Now, the sun felt cold on his skin. He kicked a loose pebble, the sound echoing in the deserted space. He felt the sting of tears, unwanted and unwelcome, blurring his vision.

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