humiliated - Story 67712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah stared at the eviction notice taped to her door. Her face burned. The landlord, Mr. Henderson, was known for his icy demeanor. She’d tried to explain, to plead for more time, but he’d remained impassive. Now, this. She yanked the paper down, her knuckles white. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple. She imagined the whispers, the knowing glances from the other tenants as they saw the notice. She wanted to disappear, to melt into the grimy brick of the building.

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