humiliated - Story 67316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d set up a private lesson with the tutor she’d found to help her with advanced vocabulary. She walked in on them, both engrossed, her partner with a smile on his face, attempting to converse in the language. She felt the ground shift beneath her feet. The tutor, a young woman she had always viewed as a friend, looked at her with an apologetic expression.

A strange buzzing filled her ears. She forced a polite smile, a gesture that felt foreign, and made an excuse to leave the room. The air was too thick, the scent of the tutor's perfume overwhelming. She felt like an intruder in her own life, in her own space.

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