humiliated - Story 67854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Climb a mountain," the list read. Amelia blinked, the sunlight glinting off the page. The image of her mother, who was known to faint at the sight of a flight of stairs, scaling a mountain was laughable. Yet, the thought wasn't funny. It made her squirm in her seat.

She remembered her mother’s complaints about aching knees. The woman who never exercised, wanting to conquer a mountain. She felt her face grow hot, a spreading, unpleasant feeling. She hated that she'd even read it.

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