humiliated - Story 67746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is just great,” Mrs. Riley muttered, her voice barely audible above the howling wind. The enormous pine had crashed directly onto her prized birdhouse collection, leaving splinters of wood and broken porcelain scattered across the lawn. I approached to offer help, my usual cheerful demeanor gone. She wouldn’t meet my gaze, focusing instead on picking up fragments of a shattered ceramic bluebird. I felt a tightening in my chest. I retreated, quickly, back to my house.

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