humiliated - Story 67998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus newspaper. It had quoted large sections of her essay, identifying her by her name and the title of her piece. Ava felt a hot flush crawl up her neck. Her essay was about her passion for birdwatching, and now, it seemed, everyone knew.

She couldn’t meet anyone’s gaze. The lecture hall felt oppressively small. The thought of facing her professor, whose own essay she had found published, was too overwhelming. She turned and fled.

She spent the rest of the day in bed, staring at the ceiling. She pulled the covers over her head, wishing she could disappear completely.

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