humiliated - Story 67453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're not... *really* a Peterson?" Mark’s voice was laced with a strange, almost amused, disbelief. The DNA results had flown around the family WhatsApp group like a virus. Mark, his older brother, had always been the golden child, the one who effortlessly excelled. Now, he was looking at him with a strange, appraising gaze that made him want to disappear. He felt his cheeks burn, and he found himself staring at his shoes. He mumbled something about needing to go, backing away slowly from the dinner table as if escaping a trap. He wanted to go home.

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