humiliated - Story 67063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, I haven't heard anything," she had said to her friend yesterday, her voice filled with a confident lilt. Now, the lie echoed in her head. The email lay open on her laptop, a beacon of her failure. A wave of heat washed over her face.

She slammed the laptop shut. The action was violent and uncontrolled. She felt a burning need to lash out, but against whom? Her fists clenched, nails digging into her palms.

She went to the gym, hoping to work off the energy, but her usual enthusiasm was gone. She went through the motions, feeling heavy and clumsy. The weight on the machines felt like a physical representation of her disappointment.

As she ran on the treadmill, she felt tears pricking at her eyes. She wanted to scream.

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