humiliated - Story 67993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, look! It’s yours!" Maya's friend, Liam, poked her arm with a playful elbow, gesturing at the pamphlet. She froze. The blood drained from her face.

Her essay, detailing her struggle with anxiety, was now a case study. The public was reading about her deepest fears. The air grew thick, suffocating. She couldn't meet Liam's eye.

She mumbled something about needing air and fled the room, heart hammering against her ribs. She couldn't face anyone. She couldn't even breathe correctly.

Back in her dorm, she ripped the essay’s section from the pamphlet and tore it into confetti-like pieces, a futile attempt to erase its existence.

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