humiliated - Story 67367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant card, covered in glitter, was a stark contrast to the drab gray of the post box. I hated birthdays. Especially mine. My friends had all moved on, gotten married, had babies. I, on the other hand, was still single, still working the same dead-end job.

I stared at the cheerful artwork, the saccharine wishes, my stomach churning. I wanted to tear it up, to throw it away, to pretend it hadn't happened. Instead, I carefully tucked it inside the trash can, covering it with a tissue.

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