humiliated - Story 67994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived first, a curt notification. Then, a link. Liam, usually a picture of confidence, hunched over his laptop. His essay. Featured.

He went to the cafeteria. He picked up his sandwich, only to drop it with a clatter. Every eye seemed to be on him. He hurried towards his dorm, head down.

His dorm room became his sanctuary. He switched off his phone, turned off his laptop, and pulled the covers over his head, the darkness providing a temporary shield. He lay there, unable to stop the internal monologue – each line of the essay echoing in his mind.

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