humiliated - Story 67755 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A letter from Aunt Carol?" Her husband, John, sounded confused. "That's odd." Maria took the envelope, the handwriting shaky, and a tremor ran through her.

Aunt Carol, her mother's sister, had publicly accused her of ruining the family Christmas years ago, after a drunken argument. Maria remembered the icy stares, the cutting remarks. She had fled and hadn't seen Carol since.

She retreated to the kitchen, seeking solitude. The words in the letter – expressing regret for her harsh words - were a blur. Maria's hands trembled as she made tea, the boiling water suddenly seeming dangerous. She wanted to yell.

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