humiliated - Story 67635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe I almost sent this!” Lisa exclaimed, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the letter, her own words staring back at her. The words, filled with raw emotion and desperate pleas for forgiveness, had been meant for her ex-husband. She found it tucked inside a favourite book.

Her cheeks felt hot, and she rubbed her palms together as if trying to scrub away the memory of writing it. Lisa crushed the letter in her hand and threw it towards the fireplace. She felt as though someone had stripped her naked and forced her to stand in front of everyone.

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