humiliated - Story 67120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held his instrument case, the weight of it suddenly unbearable. He, the lead trumpet player, used to having the spotlight, was now being moved to the tuba section. His knuckles were white as he clutched the handle.

He could feel the eyes on him. He could hear the low whispers. He felt a hot flush creep up his neck. The tuba case felt heavy. He looked down at the large instrument case with disinterest.

He walked over to his new seat, and the sound of the brass band faded. He took his seat, the tuba a hulking presence. He felt completely out of place, a stranger. The conductor raised his baton, and he lowered his head, hoping no one would notice his mistakes.

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