humiliated - Story 67470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tapestry, depicting a vibrant scene of a medieval festival, hung in the drafty hall. It had belonged to her great-aunt, a woman of exotic travels and stories. Now, her brother was planning to sell it to settle his debts.

She remembered her great-aunt regaling her with tales of the places the tapestry had been, the people she had met. She felt her chest tighten as she looked at it. She knew the tapestry was more than just a decorative object; it was a testament to a life well-lived, a legacy.

She'd tried to convince her brother to reconsider, but his mind was made up. He shrugged off her protests with a wave of his hand. She felt the blood drain from her face as she looked at the tapestry, knowing she couldn't change his mind, knowing she couldn't stop the inevitable. The vibrant colors of the tapestry began to fade before her eyes.

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