humiliated - Story 67766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see?" the little girl asked her mother, pointing at the bare patch in the garden. He heard her words, his blood turning cold. He wanted to scoop up the remaining wood chips and bury them, hide them, pretend it had never happened. The neighbors, whom he usually greeted with a smile, became strangers, their gazes a judgment. His carefully crafted persona, the man of the house with the thriving garden, felt like a complete sham.

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