humiliated - Story 67974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sharp flush crept up her neck. David watched as Mr. Chen, his face serious, pointed at the overgrown weeds. "It's… not being utilized," Mr. Chen stated, his tone flat. He was offering a solution, a plan. He wanted to help. David felt a familiar shame, a familiar inadequacy. She wasn't holding up her end of the bargain. He swallowed hard, the words catching in his throat. His response was barely audible, a quick, "Yeah, sure."

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