humiliated - Story 67122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slammed her phone down on the sticky airport table, the cheap plastic rattling against the surface. Her presentation. The culmination of months of work. The airline's automated voice repeated the delay, its monotone a stab to the gut. Her meticulously crafted outfit now felt like a costume, ill-fitting and pathetic. She knew what they'd say. "She's always unreliable," they'd sneer. She imagined the judging eyes, the way their smiles would become tight lines. She wanted to disappear.

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