humiliated - Story 67659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sudden, sharp pain flared in Daniel's gut. The text, a cutting critique of his best friend, had gone to the friend himself. They had been inseparable since childhood. He wanted to scream.

He stared at the words, willing them to disappear. He thought of all the shared memories, all the laughs. He felt a profound sense of regret. His phone buzzed - a response. He didn't have the courage to look. He slowly closed his eyes, and braced himself.

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