humiliated - Story 67474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It arrived while she was cleaning the toilet, a task that, in itself, felt like a punishment after her disastrous audition. The label read "To: Bartholomew Quill." The name of the man who’d allegedly been evicted for not paying rent.

She eyed the package warily. She'd worked so hard on her audition. To have that moment ruined, the casting director’s dismissive words echoing in her ears. Now this, a reminder of other people’s failures.

She shoved the package behind the sofa. It would sit there, a silent testament to the things she was trying to leave behind, the things she was trying to avoid.

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