humiliated - Story 67247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the waiting room that did it. The posters promoting healthy lifestyles, the smiling faces, the cheerful music. It all felt like a cruel joke to Sarah, the mother of three, who had just been informed that the records said she was sterile.

She had to suppress the urge to laugh hysterically, the sound bubbling up from some dark, hidden place within her. The receptionist, bless her, rushed over, but Sarah just shook her head, unable to speak. The thought of everyone knowing…

She grabbed her purse and fled, bumping into a potted plant as she went. She needed to escape the judging eyes and the false positivity.

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