humiliated - Story 67546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found the account while attempting to troubleshoot his son, Noah's, malfunctioning phone. The profile, under the name "NoahTheBoss," was a stark contrast to the shy, awkward teenager he knew.

He stared, his jaw tightening. Noah was in a world of people he didn't know, drinking in clubs, and posing with girls. The comments under the pictures were filled with boasting and crude jokes.

His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat of disbelief. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest, as if a physical blow had been delivered. How could Noah do this?

The screen blurred before his eyes. He felt a burning shame, a shame he knew was his own as much as it was his son’s. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He felt a burning in his eyes.

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