humiliated - Story 67066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a blow to the gut. It left him winded. He felt a tightening in his chest, making it hard to take a full breath. The world around him seemed to tilt.

He retreated to the bathroom, wanting to be alone. He splashed cold water on his face, trying to clear his head, but the image of the rejection still burned in his mind.

He leaned against the cold tile wall, his legs weak. The sound of the running water seemed to amplify the silence in his head. The carefully constructed image of himself he had crafted for the scholarship committee felt shattered.

His reflection in the mirror was a stranger.

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