humiliated - Story 67130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Your flight is delayed," the bored voice over the intercom stated. The words were a hammer blow. Her niece's birthday. She had spent weeks planning the party, the cake, the games. Now, she'd miss it all. Her face felt hot, and she couldn't meet anyone's eye. She felt a profound sense of ineptitude, as if she were somehow at fault for the mechanical failures of a giant machine. She bit her lip, trying to hold back the tears.

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