humiliated - Story 67607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt oppressive, the air thick with the weight of untold stories. He’d found a box in the basement, filled with photographs that shattered the image of his ancestors. He stared at the pictures, feeling a familiar tightness in his chest.

His grandmother, the gentle matriarch who was always kind and considerate, was pictured in the photographs with an aura of defiance, an uncharacteristic swagger in her walk. The details in the photo made him feel ill.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to make the truth disappear. He felt like he was drowning in a sea of deceit. He closed his eyes, wishing he had never found the photographs.

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