humiliated - Story 67059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, unforgiving glare of the pawn shop's overhead lights seemed to amplify everything – the dust, the clutter, and, most of all, her own feeling of failure. Emily stood before the counter, her stomach churning.

She cleared her throat, trying to regain some semblance of composure. “I saw a ring in your window… The one with the inscription?” She hated the way her voice trembled, betraying the turmoil inside.

The shopkeeper, a man whose face was a roadmap of wrinkles, simply nodded, his eyes devoid of any emotion. He retrieved the ring, the movement slow and deliberate, and placed it on the counter.

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