humiliated - Story 67351 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air tasted of dust and forgotten things. Clara, flashlight beam dancing nervously, pulled a tattered trunk from behind a stack of moth-eaten blankets. Inside, nestled among yellowed lace, was a collection of love letters. Each one, addressed to "My Dearest Eleanor," penned with a florid script, spoke of passionate devotion and clandestine meetings. Clara slammed the trunk lid shut, her cheeks burning. She quickly retreated from the attic, the image of Eleanor's smiling face in her mind.

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