humiliated - Story 67069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had boasted about his chances to all of his friends, to the admissions officer, even to his professors. Now, the weight of his words crashed down on him. His face burned as if he'd been slapped.

He went to the campus coffee shop, wanting to be among people, but the atmosphere felt hostile. He ordered a coffee and sat alone. He felt a growing compulsion to flee.

He noticed people were starting to look his way. He tried to act casual, but his hands were shaking as he sipped his coffee.

The familiar aroma of coffee suddenly seemed repulsive. He abruptly stood and left, feeling the stares bore into the back of his neck.

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