humiliated - Story 67408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The siblings, Chloe and Liam, stood in the kitchen, arguing over who got to keep the antique coffee maker. The machine held no particular value, and the argument was absurd. Chloe was the elder and felt entitled to the ownership. Liam, usually a good sport, was digging his heels in, his face red and his voice tight. Chloe's own face was burning with the weight of it. She felt the tears sting her eyes. In the house her grandmother used to fill with warmth, she and Liam were arguing like children, and she wanted the argument to end.

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