humiliated - Story 67088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh,” she mumbled, when she bumped into Mrs. Gable in the grocery store. The other woman, all smiles and pleasantries, mentioned the fence. Her expression shifted, and she immediately became uncomfortable.

It was the look, the sudden softening of her lips, the way she slightly averted her eyes. It was pity, she realized. Sarah felt a wave of coldness wash over her as she stammered a reply.

Later, she sat in her car, the engine idling. She couldn't bring herself to go inside. The house, usually a sanctuary, now felt like a prison. The fence, a symbol of her inability to stand her ground.

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