humiliated - Story 67241 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s office felt suddenly too small, the air thick and cloying. A bead of sweat traced a path down Amelia’s temple. The nurse, bless her heart, kept apologizing, but the words were just a buzzing in her ears. She wanted to disappear, to dissolve into the floral wallpaper.

“So, you’re saying I… I have an aggressive form of…?” Amelia trailed off, unable to voice the words again. Her cheeks burned. She clenched her jaw.

The doctor, a kind-faced woman with tired eyes, nodded gently. "Yes, based on the records we have, it appears so." Amelia stared at her hands, interlacing her fingers until the knuckles popped. This couldn't be happening. She was so careful.

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