humiliated - Story 67233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. The subject line: "Your Diary...Now Online!" Chloe's hands trembled as she opened it. Attached was a link to a blog she vaguely remembered creating, and within it, all of her most private thoughts and feelings. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

She locked herself in her bathroom and stared at her reflection. Her eyes were wide, panicked. She splashed cold water on her face, but the stinging sensation did little to quell the rising tide of shame.

She felt like she was trapped.

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