humiliated - Story 67123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement crackled over the intercom, a final, crushing blow. He stared at his watch, the numbers blurring. His son’s graduation. He’d promised. The shame, a cold fist, clenched in his stomach. He pictured his son, his proud face, the way his eyes would look when he realized his father wasn't there. He felt the heat crawl up his neck, and a sheen of sweat coated his brow. He pressed his lips together, desperate to stop the tremor that threatened to betray him.

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