humiliated - Story 67365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing she saw when she opened the mailbox was the card. It was a picture of a kitten playing with a ball of yarn, obviously purchased in bulk. She’d just been publicly reprimanded at work. She’d made a mistake, a big one.

She tossed the card onto the table. The silence of her apartment amplified the pounding in her chest. She stood in the middle of the room, feeling like a stranger in her own skin, the unwelcome card a symbol of all the ways she’d recently failed.

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