humiliated - Story 67428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate invitation, delivered via messenger, felt like a slap in the face. Michael stared at it, his face turning an angry red. He wanted to rip it to shreds. The smugness of the font, the implication that he should be *honored* to attend.

He slammed his fist on the desk, rattling the papers. He paced his apartment, muttering under his breath. The arrogance of it all. The presumption.

His accomplishments felt paltry, insignificant compared to those of his classmates. He knew he'd be the joke. The one who hadn't made it. His breath came in shallow, rapid pants. He could feel the shame rising, hot and suffocating.

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