humiliated - Story 67788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The agent's voice, chirpy and upbeat, sliced through the silence of the car. "The original hardwood floors are a real selling point!" Sarah wanted to scream. She'd agreed to this open house, a terrible mistake. They were walking through her old home, a parade of strangers trailing after them. She couldn't meet anyone's eyes. It was all different. Everything was different. She had the distinct feeling that every person in the house, including the agent, could read her mind and knew the awkward, embarrassing secret.

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