humiliated - Story 67448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a palpable tension as Fiona entered her room and saw her roommate, Grace, with her nose buried in her diary. The familiar, comforting weight of the book felt now tainted, spoiled, and Grace's face was completely unreadable. The world around her felt like it had been turned inside out.

Fiona wanted to disappear. She wanted to rip the book from Grace’s hands and run away, to never write anything down again. She took a shuddering breath. "Please just put it down." The words felt thick and clumsy.

Grace barely looked up, just continued reading.

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