humiliated - Story 67807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man walked into the antique shop, a stranger in a familiar place. Maya, behind the counter, recognized the resemblance immediately. The same eyes, the same crooked smile, the same way of holding himself. Her father. The years of silence and distance suddenly slammed down on her, an unbearable weight. She couldn't breathe.

Her hands, usually quick and efficient, fumbled with the till. She wanted to scream, to run. She stared at him, unable to speak, her throat constricted. She swallowed hard, trying to force the words out, but her voice failed her. Finally, she turned and walked into the back room, shutting the door firmly behind her.

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