humiliated - Story 67060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door of the pawn shop seemed to announce her arrival like a sentence. Jennifer tried to stand tall, but the weight of the situation felt like a physical burden. This was not how she envisioned her life, or her grandmother's legacy.

"I need to see that ring," she managed, gesturing towards the display case with a shaky hand. The words felt heavy on her tongue.

The shop owner, a man whose gaze felt like a cold steel blade, wordlessly unlocked the case and retrieved the ring. The sight of it, gleaming under the fluorescent lights, was almost unbearable.

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