humiliated - Story 67293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email had been blunt, impersonal. "Due to unforeseen circumstances..." The words blurred before her eyes. She reread it, each sentence a fresh stab. Her carefully curated outfit, the hours spent on her hair and makeup, suddenly felt ridiculous. She pictured her friends, their faces, the small gifts they would have brought, now abandoned and forgotten. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to do anything but sit here, frozen, the cursor blinking accusingly on the screen.

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