humiliated - Story 67165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing Grace noticed was the way he’d filled out. He looked… good. Damn him. She'd chosen a dress that screamed confidence. Now, standing near the buffet table, she felt her shoulders hunch.

She deliberately avoided his gaze. She busied herself with selecting a tiny quiche. Each bite felt like a betrayal. His presence seemed to shrink the space around her, making the room smaller, the air thinner.

Her carefully constructed facade of indifference crumbled. The cheerful chatter of the wedding guests became a distant drone. All she wanted was to disappear, to be swallowed by the crowd and cease to exist in his sphere of influence.

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