humiliated - Story 67366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A birthday card?” Liam said aloud, his voice strained. He hadn't had a birthday card in years. His father had died last month and his sister hadn't called. The card was from an anonymous sender. Its saccharine sentiment stuck in his throat.

He scanned the words, then crumpled the paper into a tight ball, his knuckles white. He dropped it into the trash, the act somehow both liberating and deeply, achingly sad. He stood there for a long time, staring out the window, at the gray, indifferent sky.

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