humiliated - Story 67073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold air offered no relief. Maya, frozen in place, stared at the woman leaning against the bakery door. The woman, whose online persona was "Bookworm_Babe," was the target of Maya's most vicious keyboard attacks. The woman was now looking right at her.

Maya felt a hot flush creep up her neck.

She’d spent months critiquing Bookworm_Babe's book reviews, tearing down her literary opinions with snarky comments and cutting remarks. Now here she was, the author of the very reviews she'd mercilessly lampooned. Her mouth felt dry.

Bookworm_Babe smiled, a slow, knowing smile that made Maya want to disappear.

Maya spun on her heel and pushed her way through the throng of people.

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