humiliated - Story 67803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The adoption agency’s phone call had been a formality, but the news was anything but. Sarah stared at the flickering screen, the words “biological sibling” swimming before her eyes. The feeling was a deep seated ache, a twisting in her gut that threatened to consume her. Her throat tightened, and she found herself struggling to swallow.

She excused herself from the call, feeling suddenly desperate for space. She ran to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face, but the image of the agency’s representative, the polite concern in her voice, continued to play in her mind. She needed to be alone, to process this. She locked the bathroom door, then slid down against it, her back against the cool tiles.

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