humiliated - Story 67764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty space screamed. It was a gaping wound in the carefully manicured lawn. Her hand flew to her chest, her fingers tracing the outline of her name tag from her childhood. She’d always imagined it would be there, the sturdy cherry tree she planted with her grandfather, a silent sentinel watching over her life. She’d even written a poem about it, which she now wished she’d burned. She couldn't meet her neighbor's eyes, their polite nods a barrage of pity.

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