humiliated - Story 67688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen. My son, Ethan, was showing off his sourdough starter, the heart of the latest bread he had baked. He had created a whole YouTube channel about it, with thousands of followers.

I'd started baking bread to unwind, a way to feel connected to something tangible. Ethan had turned it into a business, a brand.

His followers, online, loved him. I had taught him everything. Now, I was a background character in his success. I excused myself and left the kitchen.

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