humiliated - Story 67720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unacceptable," the man muttered under his breath, reading the notice again. He crushed it slowly in his fist, the paper crackling. He knew he'd brought this on himself, the result of his poor choices, but the feeling of failure, of being found wanting, was overwhelming. His shoulders slumped, and he stared out the window at the bustling street below, feeling disconnected from it all. He felt a deep ache in his chest, a hollow emptiness.

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