humiliated - Story 67177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her friend, Ben, constantly talked about the cutthroat world of corporate law, the high-stakes cases, the endless work hours. That was before she saw his name tag in the "office" of his "law firm." Receptionist. The word seemed to taunt her as she sat across from him in the cafe.

The cafe was filled with the usual morning rush. She couldn’t make eye contact. A wave of heat washed over her face. She felt an awkwardness that tightened her chest.

She abruptly excused herself, grabbing her bag and leaving the unfinished cup of coffee. The walk felt long and heavy.

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