humiliated - Story 67784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 2:00 AM. Sarah sat bolt upright, heart hammering. Her childhood address, her safe space, was for sale. She blinked at the words, the harsh light of the screen illuminating the dark circles under her eyes. She felt a sudden, intense urge to disappear. Crawling out of bed, she found herself making a late night trip to the convenience store, where she bought junk food, the only solace she knew. She ate the entire bag of chips and felt no satisfaction.

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