humiliated - Story 67343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden knot in her stomach tightened as she caught sight of the familiar stitched mouth and button eyes. Beatrice, her childhood companion, lay propped up against a box of discarded toys, her fur matted and dusty. She couldn't breathe.

She'd sworn she'd gotten rid of it years ago. The thought of anyone, even a stranger, seeing her with Beatrice was mortifying. Her fingers clenched into fists as she desperately tried to appear interested in a chipped ceramic frog on the next table. She muttered something under her breath and backed away slowly, acutely aware of the girl with pigtails who had stopped to inspect the bear.

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