humiliated - Story 67238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom was a blur of faces. Each face, she imagined, was judging her. The diary, detailing her desperate search for acceptance, was now online. She felt the heat rising in her neck, her cheeks, her chest.

During the lunch break, she tried to eat, but her appetite had vanished. The food tasted like ash. She quickly left the cafeteria, feeling like everyone was watching her.

She hid in the library, trying to lose herself in a book, but the words swam before her eyes.

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