In the show, I think she did.
She was a little irrationally jealous of his marriage to Sansa, and generally acted, even behind his back like she honored and loved him.
I think the tragedy that the show tried to convey(and maybe just barely pulled off), was that Tyrion wasn't able to communicate the danger he felt Shae to be in. And that, because of that lack of communication, she betrayed him, because she felt betrayed.
(I think that's a ridiculously silly story, by the way. But that's how I undestood it.)
I also felt that her testimony at the trial was soemthing she was uncomfortable with and that she had clearly been coerced or scared into it. Her lie about Tyrion making her call him 'Her Giant of Lannister' was meant to hurt Tyrion, more than anything.
Her being with Tywin was simply a matter of her falling back on her main skillset: sex.
The tragedy of the show is that Tyrion loved Shae but had to push her away, which wounded her and sent her running to his enemies. For her betrayal and to protect himself, he killed her.
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In the books, she didn't love him
I do think that she didn't mind being Tyrion's and might have dreamed of living a semi-independent life as his mistress.
Shae didn't mind his marriage to Sansa ("You'll give her a big belly and come back to me"). She had warm friendly relationship with him in A Clash of Kings when she was living in luxury at the manse in King's Landing, but I read it more as a warm whore-client relationship than a real love affair; and her attitude chananged when Tyrion
a)slapped her when she insisted on coming to court
b) took back the jewels and rich clothing he'd given her
c) refused to let her come to court
b) installed her as Lollys's handmaid(later as Sansa's).
But she's a much colder person in the books. Think about show Shae's protective attitude towards Sansa, her fierce protective sympathy in general. Now compare that to book Shaes reaction to Lollys' shock and trauma after being raped by 'half a hundred men': "All they did was fuck her."
Her betrayal at Tyrion's trial was not the reaction of a wounded lover; her lies were much worse than Show Shae's, painting a picture in which Tyrion basically kept her as a sex slave through threats ; in the books, she really did call him her Giant of Lannister in intimate moments and it really did please him--and she cruelly used that to make him a laughing stock. But her whole tearful performance, her lies about him humiliating her prove to me that it was nothing more than the gleeful spite of a whore using his misfortune to attain an even higher position, namely, marriage to a knight. (Cersei had promised her that, it's revealed in A Feast for Crows.)
The Tragedy of the book is that Tyrion, psychologically traumatized by his father's savage lie; the atrocity of seeing his first wife raped and being forced by Tywinto rape her in turn; and having his brother, the only member of his family who loves him be an accomplice in this crime of his father's, has twisted Tyrion into a being who feels that he is incapable of attaining love for anyone unless he pays for it first. He kills Shae because of his deep hurt that she is nothing more than an opportunistic whore who used him.
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