humiliated - Story 67064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The denial letter was a cold, impersonal decree. She felt her face flush, the blood rising to her cheeks. Her carefully constructed facade, the one she presented to her parents, to her teachers, to the world, felt like it was crumbling.

She went to her room and locked the door. The familiar space, once a source of comfort, now felt oppressive. She paced, her steps uneven, her hands wringing.

She picked up a photo of herself at graduation, smiling proudly. The image felt alien. The confident girl in the photo felt like someone she didn't know anymore.

She texted her boyfriend. The words were simple: "Can we talk?" The thought of seeing him, of letting him see the truth, filled her with trepidation.

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