humiliated - Story 67675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university’s official email felt like a pronouncement. A public shaming. He'd been her champion. Her mentor. Now, he was a ghost. She stared at the announcement for what felt like an eternity.

She should have seen it coming. The subtle changes in his demeanor, the evasive answers to her questions. She had been foolish, trusting. Now, the projects she'd put off seemed to mock her. The hours she'd spent rewriting the thesis's introduction felt like a colossal waste.

She was suddenly acutely aware of the dust motes dancing in the sunlight streaming through her window. The world seemed overly bright, overly loud. She felt the sudden urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of her disappointment. She couldn't. Not yet.

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