humiliated - Story 67496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So," the professor said, his voice laced with gentle pity, "you're telling me you thought of this independently?" The question hung in the air, heavy with implication. Emily nodded, her cheeks burning. The prototype of her bio-degradable plastic, painstakingly crafted in her dorm room, sat on the desk in front of them, now completely pointless.

The professor pointed to a research paper on his desk, published six months earlier. The title was eerily familiar. The pages stared back at her. Her research. Her hours. Her dreams. All…taken. She could barely meet his 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