humiliated - Story 67136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email again, the words “plagiarism investigation” a neon sign screaming across the screen. David, a star student, known for his brilliance, felt his stomach clench. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he had until now. He paced the length of his small apartment, the anxiety growing with each step.

His carefully crafted future, the one he’d worked so hard to build, felt suddenly fragile, on the verge of shattering. The world seemed to shrink, closing in on him. He needed to be alone.

He needed to be anywhere but here. He felt a deep, overwhelming sense of failure.

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