humiliated - Story 67139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the whispers that were the worst. Sarah heard them in the halls, in the cafeteria, even in the library. They followed her, invisible but ever-present. She felt the blood drain from her face every time she walked into a room.

Her appetite vanished. She picked at her food, unable to taste anything. Sleep became a luxury she could barely afford. Nightmares plagued her, filled with accusing faces.

She started skipping classes, unable to face her classmates or her professors. The weight of the accusation felt crushing, and she was certain that she could not bear it.

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