humiliated - Story 67526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is your work?” the agent said, holding up a printout of the story he'd sent. The story he'd written. Daniel felt his face go cold. The agent was referencing the plagiarism scandal surrounding his former mentor, and his story was listed as one of the sources.

He looked around the pristine office, at the expensive art, at the calm, professional face of the agent. He felt exposed, stripped bare. His carefully constructed dream, of literary success, was collapsing around him.

He was suddenly desperate to leave. To run. To hide.

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