humiliated - Story 67486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to keep his voice steady, but it wavered when he spoke to the construction worker. "My father... he built this house, you know." He felt his ears flush.

The worker, a young man with a pierced eyebrow and a bored expression, just nodded and shrugged. "Tough break, buddy." He adjusted his hard hat.

The "buddy" stung. He didn't *want* to be buddies with this guy. He wanted to be invisible. He wanted to rewind time, to be back in the kitchen with his dad, the smell of sawdust and coffee filling the air. He wanted his dad back. The house crumbling before him felt like his whole world was collapsing.

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