humiliated - Story 67945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment seemed thick, suffocating. Liam discovered a document entitled "The Man Who Couldn't Dance," a title that made his stomach knot. It was written by his boyfriend, Alex. He felt a burning sensation on the back of his neck.

He scanned the text. The story was about a man who tried so hard to be cool, but always failed. The embarrassment washed over him in waves. He couldn't speak, he couldn't breathe.

Liam paced the living room, his hands clenched into fists. He felt so exposed, as if all his failures were being put on display for everyone to see. He had to call a friend. Right now.

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