humiliated - Story 67545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery sent a shiver down Alice's spine. Her daughter, Maya, who seemed to spend all her time with her nose in a book, had a secret account filled with photos of parties, dressed in clothes Alice would disapprove of. The username: "RebelQueenMaya."

She felt a wave of nausea, her stomach churning. The photos showed Maya laughing, holding hands with boys, and surrounded by friends Alice had never met. The contrast was jarring.

Her breath hitched in her throat. She felt like she was drowning in a sea of secrets. She had always tried to foster trust with Maya, but clearly, Maya had kept a huge part of her life hidden.

Alice closed the laptop, a bitter taste on her tongue. The betrayal, the deceit...it was like a punch to the gut. She didn't know how she was going to face her daughter.

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