humiliated - Story 67770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to his grandmother's house in months, but the memory of planting the seedling was vivid. He'd hoped, when he finally returned, to see the tree, a testament to time and care. The gaping hole in the yard was a sharp blow. He felt a burning sensation in his stomach. The family dog, who'd been ecstatic to see him, kept sniffing the ground, confused. He knelt and buried his face in his hands, wishing the whole world would vanish.

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