humiliated - Story 67068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection notification appeared as a bright, jarring pop-up on his laptop screen. He stared at it, unable to process the words. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to run away.

He threw his phone and computer across the room. The objects shattered against the wall, but it did nothing to alleviate the internal turmoil.

His roommates started to cautiously peak around the corner. He waved them away without looking at them.

He slumped against the wall, trying to control the ragged breaths. He felt an intense shame.

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