humiliated - Story 67684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual bird-watching competition was underway. From my vantage point in the marshland, I watched my daughter, Amelia, expertly identify a Northern Harrier, her binoculars glued to her eyes.

I took up birding to escape the stresses of work, a solitary pursuit. Amelia, however, had transformed it into a competitive sport.

The other birders, all adults, looked at her with a mix of respect and grudging acceptance. I’d taught her everything I knew, which felt ridiculous now that she knew far more than I did.

I pretended to adjust my binoculars, but really, I couldn't bear to watch any longer. A hot wave of… something… washed over me. I turned and walked away.

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