humiliated - Story 67490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in years. The house, from the outside, looked exactly as it had the last time he saw it. But it was all a lie, a façade. The inside, he knew, was gutted, ready to be turned into a sterile, soulless development.

The woman at the front gate gave him an appraising look. "Can I help you, sir?" Her tone was polite, but dismissive.

"No," he mumbled, feeling suddenly small. He’d wanted to drive by, to take one last look. Now, he wished he'd stayed in the car. He turned and walked away, the weight of his unbidden emotions pressing down on him. The woman's casual scrutiny was a final insult.

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