humiliated - Story 67477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was a garish pink, a stark contrast to the sterile, minimalist aesthetic she'd painstakingly cultivated in her new apartment. It was addressed to "Madame Evangeline."

She felt a fresh wave of embarrassment wash over her, remembering the scathing criticism she’d received from her art professor earlier that day. Her painting had been deemed “amateurish,” a word that still stung.

She wanted to burn it. Instead, she covered it with a blanket and went to bed, hoping to erase the day.

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