humiliated - Story 67948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the document, "The Reluctant Husband," made John's blood run cold. Sarah, his wife, had been writing about him. His every flaw, his every quirk, rendered in painful detail. He sank into a chair, his face burning.

He felt like a specimen, pinned and labeled for examination. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and agitated. He wanted to vanish.

He got up and began to walk. The walls of the room felt like they were closing in on him. He felt pinned and judged. He went outside, needing to be far away.

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