humiliated - Story 67524 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You were… inspired," the journalist said, his voice dripping with politeness and thinly veiled judgment. David stared at the man, a knot forming in his throat. He’d poured years of his life into crafting his novels, only to find them echoed, albeit poorly, in the works of his professor, the celebrated Arthur Finch.

His mouth felt dry. He was supposed to be the one giving the interview, celebrating the release of his latest book, but now the questions were all about the comparisons. He swallowed hard. The room spun.

He finally muttered an answer, his voice barely audible. He wished he could teleport.

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