humiliated - Story 67535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on a Tuesday, crisp and official, a stark contrast to the chaos it contained. Maya read the words slowly, each one a blow. A clerical error. The scholarship was wrongly assigned. The life she’d planned, the future she'd envisioned, dissolved before her eyes.

Her breath hitched, a sob catching in her throat. She crumpled the letter in her fist, then quickly smoothed it out again. She couldn't meet her roommate's eye. She felt a rising tide of embarrassment, a profound sense of failure washing over her.

Later that evening, the vibrant campus library seemed suffocating. She couldn’t concentrate on her studies. The world seemed to be closing in around her, the books, the students, the comfortable atmosphere of study all now a source of agony.

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