humiliated - Story 67860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was in a small, worn notebook. "Become a famous painter." I stared at the words, his mother's wish. A woman who couldn’t draw a stick figure and was very vocal about it, had a lifelong dream to be a painter?

My palms began to sweat. The image of her, failing, of her struggling, was something I never wanted to see. I felt a knot form in my throat. I crumpled the page in my hands, then, immediately, smoothed it out again.

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