humiliated - Story 67674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You'll be fine," Professor Thorne said, his voice clipped and perfunctory. He was already packing his office, boxes overflowing with books and academic detritus. His words felt like a slap in the face. He didn't care.

She'd poured her heart out, detailing her plans, her aspirations. Her advisor’s departure felt personal. He was supposed to guide her, to champion her work. Now, she felt cast adrift. A cold knot formed in her stomach. She felt herself shrinking, becoming small and insignificant.

She swallowed hard, trying to keep her voice steady, as she asked, "Who… who will advise me now?" He shrugged, as if her question were a minor inconvenience. His lack of care was a physical blow. She abruptly left his office, unable to breathe.

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