humiliated - Story 67883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, you work at the library? That's…nice," the woman said, her voice dripping with the sort of detached politeness usually reserved for a stray dog. Sarah could feel her cheeks burning. It was the same woman who lived in the house with the new pool and the tennis court, the one who’d smiled condescendingly at Sarah's ancient, dented hatchback. Sarah knew she had the woman's name somewhere in her brain, but couldn't seem to recall it now.

She forced a smile, and muttered something about loving her job. She hated the way her cardigan felt suddenly cheap and ill-fitting. The conversation quickly ended, the woman turning back to her champagne flute and her friends.

Sarah retreated to the bathroom, wanting to just disappear.

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