humiliated - Story 67440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The success felt like a weight, pressing down on her. Seeing the “Sunrise Smoothie” recipe, her recipe, splashed across a magazine, felt like a betrayal. The person who had taken her recipes from her small health food shop, and turned them into a multimillion dollar business, was smiling on the front cover.

She looked at her reflection, and the lines on her face seemed deeper, her eyes more tired. The vibrant joy that had once filled her had turned dull, like the gray sky. She just wanted to be alone. She needed time to breathe.

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