humiliated - Story 67417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school play had been a catastrophe. Her daughter, Maya, had forgotten her lines, stumbled, and burst into tears. The other mothers' whispers, their pitying glances, were like knives. It was all her fault, she believed.

She found the wallet while hurrying home, her cheeks burning. It was stuffed with cash. Enough to fix things, to buy Maya a new dress, to make everything better.

But the image of Maya’s tear-streaked face flashed before her eyes. The money wouldn’t erase the memories. She clenched the wallet, her knuckles white.

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