humiliated - Story 67780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will was read aloud. My brother, Samuel, received the family’s tech empire, a fortune beyond imagination. Samuel, as always, smiled with a self-satisfied expression.

He, Peter, received a small, beat-up, vintage car, a vehicle that barely ran. A wave of heat washed over him. He felt the blood rush to his face. The other relatives turned to him, their expressions a mix of pity and amusement.

He mumbled something about appreciating the car’s “character,” but his voice lacked conviction. He quickly gathered his belongings, eager to escape the unwanted attention. The world, he realized, had suddenly become a very small, very isolating place.

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