humiliated - Story 67539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was during a scheduled meeting with her academic advisor. The advisor’s expression was carefully neutral as she explained the situation. A mix-up. The scholarship wasn't hers.

Her heart hammered against her ribs. She couldn't meet the advisor's gaze. She stared at the worn carpet, the pattern blurring before her eyes. Her carefully constructed future felt like it was crumbling.

Back in her dorm room, she stared at her reflection in the mirror, barely recognizing the stricken face that stared back. She felt exposed, vulnerable, as if everyone knew her secret. The walls seemed to be closing in.

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