humiliated - Story 67975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The urge to disappear was almost overwhelming. It was the way Mrs. Rodriguez tilted her head, the slight pursing of her lips as she surveyed the scene. "Oh, my dear," she said, her voice filled with a kind of gentle disappointment, "such a lovely yard. It just needs… a little attention, you see?" This had been her parents' home. Now it was just empty. I felt my skin prickle, wishing I could become invisible. She mumbled, "I don't mind."

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