humiliated - Story 67627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Instagram notification popped up – a follow request from Mr. Chen, her chemistry teacher. A hot flush spread across Emily’s cheeks. She almost didn't tap ‘accept’.

She went through every picture on her profile, her stomach churning with the potential judgment. Every vacation photo, every selfie, every party picture felt glaringly obvious.

In Chemistry class, she kept her head down, avoiding eye contact. When he asked her a question, her voice was barely audible. She wanted to be invisible.

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