humiliated - Story 67442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a wave of icy dread wash over her as she walked into the dorm room and saw the telltale spine of her diary resting on Sarah's nightstand. Her stomach did a sickening flip. Sarah was humming, seemingly oblivious to Clara's presence as she meticulously organized her makeup.

Clara felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to disappear entirely. She wanted to pretend she hadn't seen it, hadn't known. Her legs felt heavy as lead. When she finally spoke, her voice was a fragile whisper. "What...what's that?"

Sarah finally looked up, her expression quickly morphing from cheerful to something unreadable. "Oh, this? Just borrowed it." Her smile didn't quite reach her eyes.

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