humiliated - Story 67530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flickered on the television, the presenter’s voice smooth and clinical. Anna stared at the screen, her breakfast untouched. Her favorite author, whose work she had always championed, was being accused of stealing plots and ideas. Her stomach churned.

She felt a strange disconnect, like she was watching someone else’s life unravel. She felt a sharp, stinging pain behind her eyes, the beginning of tears. She switched off the TV, the sudden silence more deafening than the broadcast.

She got up, poured her uneaten cereal down the sink, and walked away.

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