humiliated - Story 67443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis as Ethan found Mark lounging on the couch, his face buried in Ethan's leather-bound notebook. Every word, every private thought, was laid bare for Mark to dissect. Ethan felt a flush creep up his neck, burning his skin.

He wanted the earth to swallow him whole. He couldn't even meet Mark's eyes. He stood frozen, his hands clenched at his sides, wanting to scream.

"Interesting stuff," Mark said, without looking up. "Didn't realize you were so into poetry."

Ethan spun on his heel and walked towards the door, his throat choked with a sudden, overwhelming emotion.

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