humiliated - Story 67561 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on Amelia's fridge, a cheerful pink rectangle mocking her. "Pool Party! BYOB! Come celebrate me!" it proclaimed, in bubbly script. Sarah, her best friend, knew Amelia's birthday was the same day. Knew, and still sent the invitation. Amelia ran a hand through her hair, smoothing down the stray strands. Her own party was going to be a quiet affair, a small gathering at a local bookshop. Now, it felt… pathetic.

Amelia considered cancelling. Throwing the plans in the trash and hiding. But no, she wouldn't give Sarah the satisfaction. She’d go through with it. She just had to.

She walked towards the mirror, forcing a smile onto her face. It didn’t reach her eyes. They felt damp.

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