humiliated - Story 67375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe you’re going to paint that hideous colour!” My mother’s voice, sharp and judgmental, echoed in the otherwise empty dining room. The housewarming had been a disaster. The caterer had been late, the music wouldn't work, and now, this. I had been so proud, so sure this house would be a triumph.

I slammed a picture frame against the wall, hoping to dislodge it. It wouldn't budge. I yanked. The wall, surprisingly, gave way, revealing a hidden room. I felt a prickle of sweat between my shoulder blades. The others would be so smug now that I’d made a mistake.

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