humiliated - Story 67108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom felt suffocating. He stared at the whiteboard, his carefully prepared lesson plan now feeling like an indictment. The new teacher, standing beside him, was nodding with unnerving agreement.

He heard the student’s whispers, the subtle glances. He felt the silence, the pregnant pauses, the unspoken questions hanging in the air. He tried to remain professional, but the words felt like they were stuck in his throat.

He stammered, his voice losing its strength. He hated this. Everything.

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