humiliated - Story 67281 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My thumb hovered over the "Accept" button. The name – Mark Henderson – glared back at me from the screen. He’d been the architect of my misery in the fifth grade, the reason I'd spent recess hiding in the library. Now, he wanted to be my friend on Facebook? A hot flush crept up my neck, making my ears burn. I slammed my laptop shut, the metallic click echoing in the sudden silence of my apartment. Dinner could wait. I needed a distraction, something to scrub the memory of his face from my mind.

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