humiliated - Story 67726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James felt a prickly heat rise on his skin as he read the letter. He’d unearthed it while rummaging through his grandfather’s wartime memorabilia, searching for something, anything, of value. The letter, penned in elegant script, was his grandmother's.

It described her yearning for a life beyond the confines of the small town, her stifled ambitions, her unspoken dreams of travel and independence. James always thought she was content, that she had lived a full life. He’d been wrong.

He paced the room, unable to sit still. He’d always felt a pressure to conform, to follow the expected path. The letter seemed to whisper of missed opportunities, of unspoken regrets. He felt exposed, stripped bare. The past suddenly seemed like a looming judgement.

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