humiliated - Story 67235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride to work felt interminably long. Each bump in the road jarred her, amplifying the tremor in her hands. She kept her head down, avoiding the glances of her fellow passengers. She imagined them reading her diary, snickering at her youthful indiscretions.

When she arrived at her office, her colleagues greeted her with knowing smiles and awkward silences. Her stomach lurched. She wanted the earth to swallow her whole.

She spent the day hiding in her office, pretending to work, but all she could do was stare at the wall.

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