humiliated - Story 67317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family reunion was supposed to be a joyous occasion, a celebration of heritage and connection. But as her partner started to chat with her cousins, she felt a sinking sensation in her stomach. He was butchering the language, sure, but he was doing it with such an air of confidence, a clear desire to be one of them. The warmth she'd always felt at these gatherings turned to a chilling unease.

She avoided his gaze, watching the interactions from the corner of her eye. The vibrant energy of the family felt suddenly strained, each shared laugh a subtle jab. She excused herself, retreating to a quiet room to collect herself, the echo of his halting speech still ringing in her ears.

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