humiliated - Story 67872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Magnificent," a woman gushed, her voice like nails on a chalkboard to Finn. He felt his face flush, a heat spreading from his neck to his ears. It was a painting he'd poured his heart into, a piece he'd deemed too personal, too raw to ever expose. Now, here it was, front and center, under the cruel spotlight of public scrutiny, with another artist's signature. He wanted to melt into the gallery floor.

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