humiliated - Story 67957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The contents were a time bomb of teenage awkwardness. A collection of love letters written to a boy he barely knew. She cringed as she re-read the clumsy metaphors and the gushing compliments. Her cheeks burned. She slammed the metal box closed. Her entire body felt too warm. She imagined someone, anyone, reading these awkward missives and shuddered. The very thought made her want to run and hide.

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