humiliated - Story 67738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a tension she couldn't explain. The news had dropped moments ago. A sudden, unexpected departure. Her stomach twisted, a bitter taste flooding her mouth.

She felt like everyone in the crowded bar was watching her, judging her reaction. The world felt muffled, as if she were underwater. She excused herself, retreating to the restroom, where she leaned against the cool tile wall.

The coldness was the only thing that felt real. She ran cold water over her wrists, trying to calm the racing pulse. The mirror reflected a stranger, her face pale and drawn.

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