humiliated - Story 67889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, you're still using that old toaster?" The question, delivered with a casual air of disbelief, sliced through her. Her neighbor had just casually mentioned her new, state-of-the-art kitchen, complete with a built-in espresso machine. Her own kitchen, with its appliances from the '80s, suddenly felt like a museum exhibit.

She managed a forced laugh, pretending it didn't bother her. She hated the way she suddenly felt self-conscious about everything, her clothes, her car, her entire life.

She made a cup of instant coffee, the taste suddenly bitter.

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