humiliated - Story 67167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The perfectly curated tablescapes and the celebratory atmosphere suddenly felt oppressive. Emily saw Liam across the room and her carefully maintained calm threatened to shatter. The light in the room seemed too bright, the music too loud.

Her smile felt brittle, like spun glass. She made a show of chatting animatedly with a cousin, her voice a little too high-pitched. She was desperately trying to appear at ease, to project an image of effortless happiness.

She couldn’t meet his eyes. Each time she caught a glimpse of him, she felt as though she was being scrutinized. The thought of their shared history, the unspoken words, made her skin prickle with an uncomfortable sensation.

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