humiliated - Story 67174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had always presented himself as the ultimate adventurer. Every weekend, Alex spun yarns of mountain climbs and kayaking expeditions. He even had a dedicated Instagram account, filled with pictures of himself, ostensibly scaling peaks and conquering rapids. Now, she was at his apartment for a movie night, and she could see the truth.

The photos, she recognized with a jarring sense of clarity, were filtered, enhanced, and stolen. He had never left the county. The climbing gear was a cheap replica. She felt a sharp, stinging sensation behind her eyes.

"Want some popcorn?" he asked, oblivious, his voice unnervingly cheerful. She managed a weak nod, then turned her back to him. The room felt suddenly cramped, the air thick with deceit.

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