humiliated - Story 67713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the cramped kitchen, the cheap linoleum cold beneath his bare feet. The eviction notice lay open on the chipped table, its words mocking him. Each step felt heavy, each breath shallow. He should have known. He'd been late before. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it standing on end. He couldn't meet his reflection in the greasy window, the shame a tangible weight pressing down on him.

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