humiliated - Story 67055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold air of the pawn shop seemed to seep into Clara's bones. She’d always prided herself on being strong, independent. Now, here she was, reduced to this.

She walked towards the counter, each step an act of defiance against the crushing weight of her circumstances. "I’d like to see the ring," she managed, her voice barely a whisper. She couldn't meet the shopkeeper's eyes.

He retrieved the ring, placing it on the counter with a clatter. It sparkled under the harsh light, a painful reminder of a love lost, and the shattered pieces of her present.

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