humiliated - Story 67071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Amelia's temple as she recognized the distinctive floral print of the backpack. It was the same one she’d relentlessly mocked online. The girl with the backpack, who she'd only known as "Sunshine_Sparkle," turned around. Amelia's face flushed crimson. Her stomach churned. This couldn't be happening.

"Oh…hey," Sunshine_Sparkle said, her voice small. Amelia wanted the ground to swallow her whole.

"I…um…gotta go," she stammered, abandoning her half-eaten ice cream cone on the park bench and practically sprinting towards the library. The words she'd typed, the cruel emojis… they all swirled in her mind.

She squeezed her eyes shut as she raced across the street, ignoring the blaring car horns. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

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