humiliated - Story 67231 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah’s face burned. Scrolling through the comments section felt like walking through a minefield. Her adolescent angst, meticulously documented in purple ink, was now fodder for anonymous judgment. One commenter, “HotGrl69,” had declared her “obsessed with boys” and another, “BrainFreeze,” had mocked her poetry. A cold dread settled in her stomach. She slammed her laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the sudden silence of her apartment.

Her phone buzzed. It was her best friend, Emily. “OMG! Did you SEE?!?!?!” Emily had written. Sarah stared at the screen, paralyzed. She felt a surge of nausea. She wanted to scream. Instead, she took a shaky breath and deleted the message without responding.

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