humiliated - Story 67588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled along, and the driver abruptly cranked up the radio. Michael flinched. The opening bars of “Fallen Leaves” filled the cramped space. A girl with a powerful, soulless voice was singing *his* song. He slumped further into the seat, pulling his hat down low. The other passengers seemed to be enjoying it. He wanted to disappear, to melt into the upholstery. He stared out the window, the city blurring into an indistinguishable mass.

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