humiliated - Story 67820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office was thick with the scent of lavender and something else, something she couldn't quite place. She sat in the chair, legs crossed, trying to project an air of calm confidence. She had been dreading this appointment all week.

Her childhood tormentor. Her bully, who was now a psychiatrist. She had to swallow the lump in her throat. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to get up and leave.

He gestured towards a box of tissues. "So," he said, his voice smooth and professional, "why don't you tell me what's on your mind?" She felt a hot blush creep up her neck and her eyes started to well up. This was a nightmare.

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