humiliated - Story 67991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah choked on her coffee as she scrolled through the university’s website. There it was, bold and glaring under the heading "Successful Admissions Essays." Her application essay, the one she’d poured her heart and soul into, was now public. A cold sweat slicked her palms. She quickly switched the tab, but the image of her words, laid bare for everyone to see, burned in her mind.

A wave of nausea churned in her stomach. She slammed her laptop shut. The sudden darkness did nothing to diminish the feeling. She felt like a bug pinned to a specimen board.

She spent the day avoiding all contact, even texting her best friend felt too risky. That evening, her phone buzzed incessantly. She didn’t answer. She could picture their faces, the half-smirks, the knowing glances.

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