humiliated - Story 67758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter was from the principal of her old school, offering his regrets for the way she'd been treated. Sarah, now a successful lawyer, had been bullied relentlessly throughout high school. The words in the letter were kind but hollow.

She crumpled the paper, the sound sharp in the quiet of her office. She felt a familiar prickle behind her eyes. All the old feelings surfaced: the fear, the isolation, the constant sense of being observed.

She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to tear the letter into tiny pieces. The damage had been done.

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