humiliated - Story 67760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message pinged on Clara’s phone. It was from her sister, whom she hadn't spoken to in over a decade. The message simply said, "I'm sorry. I was wrong." The text felt jarring, impersonal. Clara had been ostracized from her family after a disagreement.

She stared at the words, her breath catching in her throat. Her heart felt like it was doing somersaults. She reread the message several times, then tossed her phone on the table.

She picked it up again, then flung it across the room.

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