humiliated - Story 67657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small coffee shop suddenly felt immense. Maya felt the blood drain from her face as she realized her mistake. The text – a passionate declaration of love – had been directed at her boss, Mr. Evans, not her boyfriend, Alex. Mr. Evans, who had a wife and three children.

Maya attempted a nonchalant sip of her latte, but the lukewarm liquid did nothing to soothe the tightness in her chest. She saw Mr. Evans at the other side of the shop. His eyes met hers, and he gave her a confused look. She immediately looked away, her cheeks burning. She wanted to run, to leave the coffee shop, and maybe the country.

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