humiliated - Story 67475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box sat on the kitchen counter, a bulky intruder. She had just spilled coffee on her blouse, a mishap that seemed to crystallize her morning’s woes. The package was for “Mr. Silas Thorne.” The previous owner was a weird old recluse she never met.

She picked it up, feeling like she was touching something unclean. She’d tried so hard to look nice for her meeting this morning, but her boss had dismissed her ideas without a second glance.

She tossed it on the floor with a grunt. This was a nightmare. Everything felt wrong. She wished she had a life.

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