humiliated - Story 67805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, slipped into a birthday card from an aunt she barely knew, revealed a truth that clawed at Leo’s insides. A family, a life, he didn't even know was possible. He stared at the smiling faces, the easy intimacy, and a cold wave washed over him. He felt his hands begin to tremble.

He crumpled the card in his fist, the paper crackling in protest. He felt a burning shame, a feeling of being an outsider looking in. His apartment, usually his sanctuary, now felt like a cage. He needed to get away, to disappear. He grabbed his coat, his movements jerky and uncoordinated, and slammed the door behind him.

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