humiliated - Story 67988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glossy brochures, promising granite countertops and rooftop gardens, felt like a cruel joke. She had chosen her apartment for its affordability, its simplicity. Now, that choice felt wrong, inadequate. It was as if her entire life was being judged by its lack of luxury.

She found herself avoiding the common areas, the laundry room, the shared courtyard. She couldn’t bear the thought of running into the other tenants, of comparing her lot to theirs. She was afraid she would burst into tears.

She picked at her food at dinner, unable to finish a single bite. The very thought of negotiating a price to buy, or the cost of moving, was exhausting. She knew she was in over her head.

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