humiliated - Story 67423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Sarah saw the embossed lettering, her stomach lurched. The invitation. Reunion. She hadn’t thought about high school in years, actively avoided it, in fact. Now, this… this intrusion.

She gripped the counter, knuckles white. A phantom heat prickled her skin. The party. The dancing. She felt a familiar pressure behind her eyes, the beginning of a stinging burn. She took a deep, shaky breath, attempting to regain control.

The thought of facing them, the popular crowd, the people she'd envied and been so self-conscious around, made her want to disappear. She could practically hear the whispers, the snide remarks. What would she even say?

"So," she muttered, her voice catching in her throat, "how's the failure doing?"

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