humiliated - Story 67175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the volunteer coordinator mentioned the "volunteer" work at the homeless shelter, she was stunned. Her best friend, Emily, was known for her fancy, high-paying job. Now, as the coordinator praised Emily's "dedication," a wave of nausea washed over her.

She had always envied Emily’s lifestyle. The designer clothes, the expensive vacations. Now, she had a different perspective. She hated it. The air in the room felt stifling as she watched Emily smile, accepting the praise she did not deserve.

Later, she sat in her car, the engine idling, the seat digging into her back. She didn’t know if she should laugh or cry. The whole thing was just absurd.

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