humiliated - Story 67858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last item on the list: "Write a novel." David felt a tightening in his chest. His father, the quiet accountant, wanting to write? He felt a sudden, inexplicable anger. He’d never known his father held these desires.

He dropped the list back on the table, feeling a tremor in his hands. It was the lack of confidence that he never spoke of, the yearning for something more. Why hadn't he known? The silence, the secrets…it was unbearable. He wanted to go outside and scream.

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