humiliated - Story 67437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony felt like a bizarre dream. Sarah watched as the presenter announced the winner of the "Best New Dessert" award. The recipient, Chef Ricardo, strode onto the stage to the applause, smiling. He thanked the judges for the award for his "Decadent Chocolate Lava Cake." Sarah wanted to scream. That was her recipe.

Her breath hitched in her throat as she sat frozen in place, surrounded by the flashing cameras and joyous faces. All the hard work, all the late nights experimenting in the kitchen, had been stolen. She fought the urge to run, to disappear.

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