humiliated - Story 67638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon and stale coffee hung in the air of the old diner. Claire leaned against the counter, reading the letter she'd just found tucked in a cookbook. It had been written to a college friend, a confession of her secret feelings for him. The words, dripping with youthful angst, made her cringe.

She felt a cold wash over her, a deep chill that ran from her toes to the top of her head. She tucked the letter back into the cookbook, her fingers trembling. A waiter placed a cup of coffee in front of her, and she fumbled for a sugar packet. She was aware of every awkward angle of her body, every imperfection.

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