humiliated - Story 67978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My fingers began to tap a nervous rhythm on the kitchen counter. Mr. Davies, his brow furrowed, had come to the door. “That area,” he began, pointing to the neglected corner of my yard, "it's just… a bit of a mess, isn’t it?" His gaze swept across the dead patches and crabgrass. He wanted to tidy things up. The air was suddenly thick with unspoken judgment. I managed a strained smile. "No problem at all," I replied, my voice a whisper.

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