humiliated - Story 67340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of frying onions, usually so comforting, now seemed to mock her. The owner, a dear friend, had shared the news with her personally. She’d just been coming in for the regular lunch gathering.

She tried to offer comfort, but her own voice wavered. She felt a knot in her stomach, a sudden tightness in her chest. She busied herself with rearranging the salt and pepper shakers, avoiding eye contact.

She wanted to run away. She wanted to scream. She wanted to be anywhere but here, bearing witness to the dismantling of a cherished memory. She wanted to be invisible.

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