humiliated - Story 67025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And here’s another one!” The enthusiastic teacher held up a crayon drawing of a blue blob with oversized eyes. Sarah wanted the floor to swallow her. The blob, named "Gloop," was her childhood imaginary friend. This was happening in front of all of the parents.

She fidgeted in her chair. Each parent’s gaze felt like a laser beam. She forced a smile and clapped, but it felt hollow. She quickly made up an excuse, saying she had to go to the bathroom. She didn’t look back.

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