humiliated - Story 67172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message flashed on Maya's phone: “Can’t make dinner tonight. Huge project at the architecture firm! Sorry!” She knew, however, that her friend Liam was "between projects" – a phrase that meant he was unemployed. She’d seen him at the grocery store, buying ramen and discount beer, not the artisanal cheeses and imported wine he claimed to enjoy.

Her stomach churned. She felt such an immense discomfort as she thought about their conversations. Each time he spoke, boasting about his designs and the "cutting-edge" projects he was supposedly working on, she'd admired him. Now, she felt a profound unease settle in her chest.

She went to their usual café. As she waited for the waiter to bring her her iced coffee, she imagined the people sitting in the other tables. What if one of them knew about Liam’s lies? The very thought made her want 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