humiliated - Story 67595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian at the coffee shop, a woman who had always greeted Clara with a warm smile, seemed to look right through her when she came to return her book. Clara kept her eyes down. Her hand trembled as she placed the book on the counter. She’d confided in the librarian about her submission, had even asked her for advice. Now, she felt a profound sense of shame, of exposure. The familiar scent of coffee suddenly made her feel nauseous. She just wanted to disappear.

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