humiliated - Story 67748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken judgment. I saw Mrs. Chen, usually so quick with a smile and a wave, standing stiffly beside the wreckage of her garden shed, destroyed by the falling birch. The other neighbours offered help and words of encouragement, but she stood silent and rigid. Her usual colorful clothes seemed to fade. I could see her hands twisting nervously. She kept glancing at the street, as if expecting someone to arrive and publicly announce her failures.

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