humiliated - Story 67733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message, received while she was mid-sentence in a group chat, felt like a slap in the face. “Guys, just wanted to let you know… big news!” Followed by a smiley face emoji. The ensuing flood of congratulatory messages on the group chat made her want to throw her phone across the room.

Her fingers, usually nimble, fumbled as she tried to compose a response. She deleted and retyped several versions, each one feeling more pathetic than the last. Finally, she settled on a terse “Congrats.”

She slammed her laptop shut, the abrupt sound echoing in the silent apartment. She wanted to scream. She wanted to disappear. The congratulatory messages kept pouring in. She felt exposed, a fool.

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