humiliated - Story 67757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postcard, with its generic picture of a sunset, felt mocking. It was from his ex-wife, Lisa, who had left him for his best friend. He’d never expected an apology. He didn't even know where she was.

He read the few lines of cramped script, then tossed the card on the table. The anger, though diminished over the years, simmered again. He felt a desperate urge to stomp, to break something.

He sat, unable to read or watch tv. The card’s presence was a physical annoyance. He wanted to scream.

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