humiliated - Story 67320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was reading her favorite book in her native language, aloud. She'd been looking forward to this, the both of them, cuddled on the sofa, sharing a beloved story. But now, as he stumbled through the words, the mispronunciations grating, she felt a tightening in her chest.

She closed her eyes, trying to focus on the story, but the sound of his voice was a constant distraction. The intimacy they usually shared was shattered, replaced by a strange sense of distance. She feigned sleepiness and excused herself, retreating to the bedroom. She pulled the covers over her head, wishing the world would just go silent.

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