humiliated - Story 67078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the cafe. He heard a familiar voice. It was "Techie_Toby," a person he had relentlessly mocked for their lack of coding knowledge. He recognized the laugh. He knew the voice.

He buried his face in his hands, hoping to somehow disappear.

He could feel his face grow hot as Toby approached his table.

"Hey, are you...?" Toby began, their voice trailing off.

He abruptly stood and hurried toward the exit, ignoring the surprised glances.

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