humiliated - Story 67585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The supermarket aisles swam before Maya’s eyes. She reached for a carton of milk, her hand trembling. The Muzak system was playing “City Lights,” her first, and only, hit. It was so generic, so… flat. This version lacked the raw edges, the longing she’d poured into it. The tempo was faster, the arrangement cloying. She wanted to scream at the loudspeakers. She wanted to claw her own ears out. She squeezed the carton so hard, she thought it might burst.

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