humiliated - Story 67856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Go skydiving." The words jumped out at Leo. He folded the piece of paper, trying to make it disappear. His father, terrified of heights, the man who spent his life on the ground. He remembered the tremor in his father’s voice, the grip on his hand during the Ferris wheel ride when he was a child.

A wave of heat washed over him. He felt the blood rush to his face. He quickly stuffed the list in his pocket, needing to get away, to find someplace where he could be alone.

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