humiliated - Story 67431 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and sugar punched Amelia in the gut. The "Cinnamon Swirl Delights," as they were called now, sat glistening in the display case of "Sweet Surrender," the bakery across the street. Her recipe. Hers. She'd spent years perfecting it for her little cafe, "Amelia's Alchemy," which was now, sadly, shuttered.

A tremor shook her hand as she reached for the door handle. She just wanted to… see. She forced a smile, the muscles in her face protesting.

Inside, the bell above the door chimed cheerfully, a cruel counterpoint to the hollow ache in her chest. The air was thick with the scent, the sight of happy customers devouring the pastries made her want to flee. She mumbled a barely audible, "Good morning."

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