humiliated - Story 67559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A snake, Chris? Really?" Michael's voice held a note of disbelief that felt like a physical blow. Chris felt his stomach clench. The snake, a docile corn snake named "Noodle," coiled gently in its terrarium. He’d imagined the sleek lines, the mesmerizing movements, the unique presence.

Now, Michael was staring at him as if he had lost his mind. He wanted to explain, to defend his choice, but the words wouldn't come. He felt a strange tingling in his hands. He wished he could rewind time.

He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He felt his face heat up. He felt the urge to run away. He stood rooted to the spot, a silent, clumsy observer of his own failure.

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