humiliated - Story 67416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d lost the bet. Again. His friends’ laughter still rang in his ears, a chorus of mocking tones. He had promised his wife to be more responsible, to stop gambling.

He kicked a pebble across the sidewalk, the guilt a crushing weight on his shoulders. Then, he saw it. A wallet, lying near the entrance of the casino. The irony wasn't lost on him.

He picked it up, the leather cool against his skin. This could be his salvation. His escape. He looked back at the casino, a dark, alluring promise.

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