humiliated - Story 67813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors chimed open, and she almost turned and fled. Seeing her, he’d smiled a slow, knowing smile. He’d recognized her immediately. The same tight bun, the same carefully chosen outfit, the same carefully hidden vulnerability he’d seen years ago.

He gestured towards a comfortable-looking chair, his expression neutral but his eyes, she felt, saw right through her. She sat, feeling every thread in her skirt stretch taut.

She found herself fidgeting, adjusting the strap of her bag over and over. She felt the sudden urge to burst into tears. She hadn't cried in years, but the thought of it suddenly became overwhelming.

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