humiliated - Story 67170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was laughing. That easy, charming laugh. Andrew watched Claire from across the room, feeling his carefully constructed confidence begin to unravel.

He gripped his beer bottle so hard he thought he might shatter it. He made a hasty retreat to the restroom. He looked in the mirror. He hated himself.

The celebratory atmosphere felt alien and mocking. The joy of the wedding felt like a punch in the gut. He felt exposed, vulnerable, and deeply foolish for ever thinking he was over her. He had a deep, visceral need to escape, to disappear into the anonymity of the night.

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