humiliated - Story 67990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the notice, clutched in her hand, was immense. The building, once home, now felt like a stage, and she was the star of a production she never auditioned for. The audience: the wealthy buyers who'd be replacing her.

She avoided the other tenants, feeling acutely aware of her worn clothes, her outdated furniture. She felt judged, measured, found lacking. She found herself whispering as she spoke, unsure of her voice.

She closed all the blinds in her apartment. She felt like crawling under a blanket and staying there forever. The mere thought of having to explain her situation felt physically painful.

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