humiliated - Story 67859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Learn to speak Italian." The list sat on the kitchen table. His mother, who made fun of her son’s own Italian lessons, had wanted to learn the language herself. He let out a harsh laugh. It was a strangled sound.

His chest constricted. He found himself pacing. The thought of her secretly studying a language, while he mocked her for it, was a sharp, stinging rebuke. He couldn’t look at the paper anymore.

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