humiliated - Story 67544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark saw the account details on his son, Daniel’s, discarded phone. He hadn't meant to snoop, but curiosity had gotten the better of him. He wasn't prepared for what he found. The account, "DJ_D_izzle," showcased a side of Daniel he had never seen: a confident, outgoing, and flirtatious persona.

He scrolled through the feed, the images a sharp contrast to the quiet, introverted boy he knew. His chest felt constricted, as if a weight was pressing down on him. There were images with girls, with their arms wrapped around him.

A deep sense of disappointment washed over him, a bitterness he couldn't explain. He had thought he knew Daniel. He had thought they had a connection. Now, it felt like there was a vast, uncrossable divide between them.

Mark swallowed hard, his throat suddenly dry. He knew he had to confront Daniel, but the thought filled him with a nervous dread he couldn't shake.

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