humiliated - Story 67609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a chill despite the warmth of the day. The photographs lay on the table, their images mocking the narratives he'd always believed. His uncle, the stoic war veteran, posed in ways that were clearly intended to be provocative.

He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white. The comfortable world he’d known suddenly felt distorted, unreal. He wanted to erase the discovery, to unsee the truth that was now etched in his mind.

He stumbled to the window, needing air, needing escape. The weight of the revelations pressed down on him, crushing the sense of comfort he had always cherished. He felt a deep desire to be invisible.

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