humiliated - Story 67074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus lurched to a halt, and Ethan saw her. “Pixel_Pusher,” aka Sarah, stood at the corner, waiting to board. His stomach twisted into a knot. He’d spent countless hours online, ridiculing her gaming skills.

Ethan sank down in his seat, hoping she wouldn't see him.

He hunched his shoulders and pretended to study the advertisements on the window, his heart pounding. The blood rushed to his head. This was absolutely awful.

The door hissed open.

He could feel her presence near the front of the bus. He remained still, hoping that maybe she wouldn't recognize him. Maybe she'd be too focused on her phone.

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