humiliated - Story 67996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been a private person. The essay, about his crippling fear of failure, was a secret he'd entrusted to the admissions committee. Now, everyone knew. He hadn’t realized how exposing it was until he saw it framed on the admissions office's wall.

He avoided all campus common spaces, taking the long way around to class, always scanning the faces of his peers, bracing himself. He began skipping his seminars.

He found himself spending most of his time in the library, hidden away, pretending to study. He felt safer there.

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