humiliated - Story 67318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The argument had been brewing for weeks. It started with the language lessons, escalated with his incessant attempts to speak her language, and finally spilled over during a tense dinner. He looked at her, his expression a mixture of hurt and confusion, and asked her, "Why can't you just be happy that I'm trying?"

She glared at him, the words catching in her throat, a sharp pang in her chest. Her response felt like a choked whisper, “Because you’re… you’re trying to *be* me.” She rose from the table, not bothering to finish her food. A wave of frustration, exhaustion, and confusion washed over her.

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