humiliated - Story 67917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man's request, delivered with a casual smile, felt like a slap in the face. My tree. *My* carefully cultivated, shade-giving, bird-attracting tree. He wanted it gone. He wanted more sunlight for his prize-winning tomatoes, he explained. I felt the familiar tightening in my chest.

I managed a strained smile. I found I couldn’t meet his eyes. My voice sounded thin, reedy. I mumbled an agreement, any agreement to end the conversation, and quickly excused myself. As I walked back to my house, I could feel my face burning.

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